Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Marriage

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Diller, Phyllis

11.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

12.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

13.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

14.

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

Winters, Shelley

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

19.

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

Proverb

20.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

21.

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

22.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

25.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

26.

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

Novalis

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Landers, Ann

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

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

34.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

35.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

36.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

37.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

38.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

40.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

41.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

42.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

43.

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

44.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

45.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

46.

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

47.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

48.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

49.

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

50.

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