Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

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

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Bundy, Peg

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Miller, Harlan

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

10.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

13.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

14.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb

17.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Connolly, Cyril

22.

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

Ruckett

23.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

24.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

25.

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

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Mae West

28.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Rudner, Rita

30.

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

Spencer, Herbert

31.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

33.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

39.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

41.

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

Duncan, Isadora

42.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

43.

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

Jong, Erica

44.

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

45.

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

Murray, Joe

46.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

47.

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

Proverb, Spanish

48.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Billings, Josh

50.

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