Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Will Rogers

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

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Young, Brigham

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

13.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

17.

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

18.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

19.

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

Cosby, Bill

20.

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

Knowles, F. M.

21.

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

Maurois, Andre

22.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

23.

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

24.

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

Diller, Phyllis

25.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

26.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

28.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

29.

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

30.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

31.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

32.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

34.

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

Marx, Groucho

35.

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

36.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

37.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

39.

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

Sunday, Billy

40.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

41.

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

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

44.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

45.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

46.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.