Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dangerfield, Rodney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Chopin, Daniel

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

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

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

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

11.

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

Skelton, Red

12.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Marx, Groucho

15.

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

16.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

17.

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

Eucharista Ward

18.

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

19.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

20.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

22.

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

23.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Smalley, Gary

26.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

27.

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

Mead, Margaret

28.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

29.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Bundy, Peg

31.

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

32.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

35.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

36.

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

Ruckett

37.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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

Rieux, Madame De