Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Murray, Joe

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rita Rudner

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

Rita Rudner

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

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

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Baskins

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

10.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

11.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

12.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

13.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

15.

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

16.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

17.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

18.

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

19.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

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

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

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

Moliere

24.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

25.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

26.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

27.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

28.

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

Pearl Buck

29.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

30.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

33.

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

34.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

35.

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

36.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

37.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

40.

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

41.

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

42.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

43.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

44.

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

45.

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

Murray, Joe

46.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

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

48.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

49.

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

Rooney, Mickey

50.

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