Motivational Quotes

Marriage

One man's folly is another man's wife.

- Helen Rowland

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Mae West

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

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

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

Moliere

12.

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

13.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

14.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

15.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

16.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

17.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

20.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

21.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

22.

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

23.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

24.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

26.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

27.

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

28.

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

Ziglar, Zig

29.

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

30.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

31.

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

Mickey Rooney

32.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

34.

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

Hitopadesa

35.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

36.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

37.

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

38.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

41.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

43.

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

Skelton, Red

44.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

45.

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

Rita Rudner

46.

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

47.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

48.

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

Duncan, Isadora

49.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

50.

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