Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

- Grizzard, Lewis

Best Quotes about Marriage

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

Rita Rudner

11.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

13.

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

Rita Rudner

14.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

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

16.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

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

18.

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

Young, Brigham

19.

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

20.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

24.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

25.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

27.

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

28.

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

Murray, Joe

29.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

30.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

31.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Vass, Susan

34.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

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

Balzac, Honore De

36.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

37.

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

38.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

42.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

43.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

44.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

45.

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

46.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

50.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig