Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Nick Faldo

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

12.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

13.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

14.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

15.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

16.

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

Balzac, Honore De

17.

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

Elizabeth I

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Sunday, Billy

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Peter Blake

28.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

29.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

30.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

33.

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

Duncan, Isadora

34.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

40.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Kathleen Norris

44.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

45.

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

Will Rogers

46.

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

47.

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

48.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

49.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

50.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John