Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Helen Rowland

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

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Mae West

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

10.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

11.

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

12.

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

Irving, Washington

13.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

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

Pancoast, Mal

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

19.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

22.

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

23.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

24.

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

25.

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

Young, Brigham

26.

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

Moliere

27.

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

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

30.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

31.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

32.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

33.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

34.

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

Marx, Groucho

35.

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

Carson, Johnny

36.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

37.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

38.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

Maurois, Andre

41.

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

42.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

43.

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

Kinison, Sam

44.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

45.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

46.

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

Ziglar, Zig

47.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

48.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

49.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

50.

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

Jong, Erica