Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

- Newman, Nanette

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Will Rogers

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

Novalis

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

Mae West

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

Harrison, Jane

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

Hesiod

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

13.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

14.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

15.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

16.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

17.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

19.

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

20.

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

Duncan, Isadora

21.

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

22.

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

Chopin, Daniel

23.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

24.

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

Ruckett

25.

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

Murray, Joe

26.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

27.

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

Smith, Sydney

28.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

29.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

30.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

31.

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

32.

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

33.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

34.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

35.

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

36.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

38.

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

Peter Blake

39.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

40.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

41.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

42.

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

Rooney, Mickey

43.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Key, Ellen

47.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

48.

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

49.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

50.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma