Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Best Quotes about Marriage

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Peter Blake

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Pancoast, Mal

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

10.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

11.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

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

13.

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

Bundy, Peg

14.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

16.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

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

21.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

22.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

23.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

25.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

26.

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

27.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

28.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

29.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

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

31.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

32.

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

Mead, Margaret

33.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

34.

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

Hitopadesa

35.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

36.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

37.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

38.

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

39.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

40.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

45.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

46.

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

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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

49.

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

Moliere

50.

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