Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rita Rudner

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

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

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Farquhar, George

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

10.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

11.

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

12.

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

Victoria, Queen

13.

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

14.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

15.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

16.

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

Rudner, Rita

17.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

18.

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

Wilder, Thornton

19.

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

20.

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

Peter Blake

21.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

23.

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

24.

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

Eucharista Ward

25.

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

Updike, John

26.

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

27.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

28.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

29.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

30.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

31.

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

Pancoast, Mal

32.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

33.

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

34.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

35.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

36.

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

Proverb, German

37.

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

Barrymore, John

38.

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

Proverb

39.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Carson, Johnny

42.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

43.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

44.

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

Cosby, Bill

45.

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

46.

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

Moliere

47.

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

Rooney, Mickey

48.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.