Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

10.

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

11.

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

12.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

13.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

14.

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

15.

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

Ziglar, Zig

16.

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

Miller, Harlan

17.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

18.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

19.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

20.

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

21.

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

Marx, Groucho

22.

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

Jong, Erica

23.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

24.

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

Smith, Sydney

25.

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

Moliere

26.

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

27.

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

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.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

33.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

35.

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

36.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

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

Congreve, William

38.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

Carson, Johnny

40.

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

Sunday, Billy

41.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

43.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

46.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

47.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

48.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy