Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

11.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

13.

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

Sunday, Billy

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

15.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Pearl Buck

17.

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

Heine, Heinrich

18.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

19.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

20.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

21.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

22.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

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

24.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

25.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

26.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

28.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

29.

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

30.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

31.

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

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

34.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

35.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

37.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Kathleen Norris

41.

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

Baum, Vicki

42.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

43.

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

Rooney, Mickey

44.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

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

46.

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

Allen, Woody

47.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

48.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

49.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

50.

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

Coward, Noel