Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Alexander, Shana

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hitopadesa

13.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

20.

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

21.

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

Moliere

22.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

23.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

24.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

25.

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

26.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

27.

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

Miller, Harlan

28.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

29.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

30.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

32.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

33.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

Victoria, Queen

35.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

40.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

41.

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

42.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

44.

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

45.

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

Irving, Washington

46.

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

47.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

48.

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

49.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

50.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul