Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Moliere

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

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

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

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

10.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

11.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

12.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

13.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

18.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

20.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

21.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

22.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

23.

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

Marx, Groucho

24.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

25.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Ford, Richard

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

31.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Farquhar, George

33.

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

34.

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

Murray, Joe

35.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Hesiod

38.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

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

Will Rogers

40.

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

41.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

42.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

43.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

44.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

45.

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

46.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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