Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mead, Margaret

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

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

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

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

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

10.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

11.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

12.

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

Vass, Susan

13.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

14.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

18.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Winters, Shelley

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

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

Kauffman, Max

24.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

25.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

26.

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

Cosby, Bill

27.

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

28.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

29.

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

30.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

31.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

32.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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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

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

36.

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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Carson, Johnny

39.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

40.

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

41.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

42.

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

43.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

44.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

46.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

47.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

48.

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

49.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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