Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Thomason, Pauline

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Peter Blake

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Moliere

11.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

12.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

13.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

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

16.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

18.

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

19.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

20.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

21.

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

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

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

Rita Rudner

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

27.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

28.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

29.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

30.

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

31.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

32.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

33.

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

Rita Rudner

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Scottish

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Ruckett

42.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

43.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

44.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

45.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

Marx, Groucho

47.

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

Luther, Martin

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De