Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Updike, John

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

Spencer, Herbert

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

10.

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

11.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

12.

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

13.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

14.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

15.

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

Prior, Matthew

16.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

18.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

19.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

21.

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

Murray, Joe

22.

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

Cosby, Bill

23.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

25.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

26.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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

29.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

30.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

33.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

34.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

35.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

36.

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

Rita Rudner

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

40.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

41.

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

42.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

43.

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

Will Rogers

44.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

45.

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

46.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

47.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

48.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

49.

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

Vries, Peter De

50.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.