Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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

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

Peter Blake

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

10.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

13.

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

Samuel, Herbert

14.

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

Murray, Joe

15.

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

Skelton, Red

16.

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

17.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

18.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Chopin, Daniel

28.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

29.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

34.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

35.

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

Moliere

36.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

38.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

39.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

40.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

41.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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

Rooney, Mickey

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

47.

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

48.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

49.

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

Mencken, H. L.

50.

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