Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dangerfield, Rodney

Best Quotes about Marriage

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

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

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

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Kauffman, Max

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

10.

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

Rita Rudner

11.

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

Murray, Joe

12.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

13.

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

Victoria, Queen

14.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

15.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

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

Mead, Margaret

18.

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

19.

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

Will Rogers

20.

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

Rita Rudner

21.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

23.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Bush, Barbara

25.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

27.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

28.

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

29.

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

Hitopadesa

30.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

31.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

33.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

34.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

35.

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

36.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

38.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

40.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

41.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

42.

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

43.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

45.

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

Hull, Raymond

46.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

47.

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

48.

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

Rudner, Rita

49.

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

Mae West

50.

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