Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Marriage

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.

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

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

11.

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

Vries, Peter De

12.

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

Bible

13.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

14.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

15.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

16.

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

Andre Maurois

17.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

18.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

19.

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

Halen

20.

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

21.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Skelton, Red

25.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

26.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

27.

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

Mickey Rooney

28.

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

Mae West

29.

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

Marx, Groucho

30.

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

Kinison, Sam

31.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Vries, Peter De

34.

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

35.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

36.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

37.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

38.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

39.

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

Murray, Joe

40.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

41.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

43.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb

46.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

47.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

48.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

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

50.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy