Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Moliere

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

Nick Faldo

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

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

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

Ford, Richard

10.

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

Diller, Phyllis

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

13.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

14.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

15.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

16.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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

19.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

20.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

21.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

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.

25.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

26.

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

Young, Brigham

27.

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

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

29.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

30.

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

31.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

32.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

33.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

34.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

35.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

36.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

41.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

45.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

47.

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.

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

50.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.