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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Jong, Erica

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

10.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

11.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

12.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

13.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

14.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

15.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

16.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

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

Duncan, Isadora

19.

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

20.

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

Moliere

21.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

22.

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

Kinison, Sam

23.

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

24.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Rowland, Helen

28.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

29.

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

30.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

31.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

32.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

33.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

34.

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

Winters, Shelley

35.

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.

Ann Landers

36.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

37.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

38.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

39.

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

Kathleen Norris

40.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

41.

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.

42.

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

Mickey Rooney

43.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

44.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

46.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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