Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

- Asquith, Margot

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marx, Groucho

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Rita Rudner

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

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

Asquith, Margot

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

Wilder, Thornton

10.

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

11.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

12.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

13.

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

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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.

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

18.

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

Connolly, Cyril

19.

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

Penn, William

20.

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

Mead, Margaret

21.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

24.

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

25.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

27.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

28.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

29.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

30.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

33.

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.

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Hitopadesa

36.

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

Victoria, Queen

37.

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

38.

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

39.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

40.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

Hitopadesa

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Wilson, Earl

46.

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

47.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

48.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

49.

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

Proverb

50.

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

Kathleen Norris