Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

13.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

14.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

15.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

18.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

20.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

22.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

23.

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

Moliere

24.

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

Wilson, Earl

25.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

26.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

27.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

28.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

29.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

30.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

31.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

32.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

36.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

37.

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

Coward, Noel

38.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

41.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

42.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

43.

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

44.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

45.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Winters, Shelley

49.

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

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis