Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Nick Faldo

Best Quotes about Marriage

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

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.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

10.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

Dave Meurer

13.

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

14.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

15.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

16.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Will Rogers

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

21.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

22.

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

Sunday, Billy

23.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

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

Vass, Susan

28.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

29.

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

Andre Maurois

30.

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

31.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

33.

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

Maurois, Andre

34.

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

35.

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

Mickey Rooney

36.

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

37.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

38.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

39.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

40.

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

Wycherley, William

41.

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

Graham, James

42.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

43.

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

44.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

45.

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

Winters, Shelley

46.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

47.

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

Coward, Noel

48.

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

49.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

50.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis