Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

10.

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

Heine, Heinrich

11.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

14.

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

Baskins

15.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

16.

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

Wycherley, William

17.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

18.

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

19.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

20.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

21.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

24.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

25.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

26.

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

27.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

29.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

30.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

31.

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

32.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

33.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

34.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

35.

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

36.

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

Allen, Woody

37.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

38.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

39.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

40.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

45.

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

Mickey Rooney

46.

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

47.

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

Luther, Martin

48.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

49.

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

Novalis

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.