Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

10.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

11.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

13.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

14.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

15.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

16.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

17.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

18.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

19.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

20.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

21.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

22.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

23.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

24.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

25.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

26.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

27.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

28.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

29.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

30.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

31.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

32.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

33.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

34.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

35.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

38.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

40.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

41.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

42.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

43.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

44.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

45.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

46.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

47.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

48.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

49.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

50.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy