Motivational Quotes

Marriage

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

- Winters, Shelley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

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

11.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

12.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

13.

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

Helen Rowland

14.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

16.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

17.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

19.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

20.

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

21.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

22.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

23.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

24.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

25.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

27.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

28.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

31.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

32.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

33.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

34.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

35.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

36.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

37.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

38.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

39.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

40.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

41.

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

Eucharista Ward

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

44.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

45.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

47.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

49.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

50.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.