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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

12.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

13.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

14.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

15.

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

Maurois, Andre

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

23.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

25.

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

26.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

27.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

29.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

35.

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

36.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

37.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Rooney, Mickey

42.

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

43.

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

44.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

45.

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

46.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

48.

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

Proverb, German

49.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.