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

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Farquhar, George

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.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

10.

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

Ruckett

11.

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

Murray, Joe

12.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

13.

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

14.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

15.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

16.

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

17.

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

Maurois, Andre

18.

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

Baum, Vicki

19.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

20.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

22.

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

23.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

24.

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

Samuel, Herbert

25.

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

26.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Peter Blake

28.

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

Mickey Rooney

29.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

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

31.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

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

33.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

34.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

35.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

36.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

37.

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

38.

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

Baskins

39.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

40.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Wycherley, William

42.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

43.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

44.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.