Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

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

Winters, Shelley

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

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

12.

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.

13.

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

Landers, Ann

14.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

15.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

16.

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

Vries, Peter De

17.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

18.

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

Vass, Susan

19.

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

20.

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

Duncan, Isadora

21.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

Skelton, Red

25.

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

Bush, Barbara

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Maurois, Andre

31.

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

32.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

33.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

34.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

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

36.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

37.

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

Prior, Matthew

38.

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

39.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

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.

41.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

42.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

45.

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

Duncan, Isadora

46.

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

Victoria, Queen

47.

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

Victoria, Queen

48.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

49.

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

Rita Rudner

50.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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