Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Eucharista Ward

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

16.

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

Hitopadesa

17.

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

18.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

20.

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

Prior, Matthew

21.

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

22.

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

Kathleen Norris

23.

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

Proverb, Scottish

24.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

25.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

26.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

27.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

29.

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

30.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

31.

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

Kauffman, Max

32.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

33.

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

Farquhar, George

34.

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

Spencer, Herbert

35.

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

Moliere

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

41.

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

42.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

46.

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

Peter Blake

47.

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

Mencken, H. L.

48.

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