Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

10.

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

Smith, Sydney

11.

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

12.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

13.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

14.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

15.

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

16.

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

17.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

18.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

19.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

20.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

23.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

24.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

25.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

26.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

27.

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

Moliere

28.

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

29.

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

Rita Rudner

30.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

31.

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

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

34.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

35.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

36.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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

40.

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

Marx, Groucho

41.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

42.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Victoria, Queen

44.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

45.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

46.

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

47.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

48.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

49.

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

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare