Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Duncan, Isadora

10.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

11.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

15.

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

Hitopadesa

16.

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

17.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

18.

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

19.

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

20.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

22.

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

23.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

24.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

29.

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

30.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

31.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

32.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

33.

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

34.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

36.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

37.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Marx, Groucho

39.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.

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

41.

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

Ziglar, Zig

42.

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

Jong, Erica

43.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

44.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

45.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

46.

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

Victoria, Queen

47.

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

48.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

49.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

50.

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

Harrison, Jane