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

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

10.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Diller, Phyllis

15.

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

16.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

17.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

18.

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

Marx, Groucho

19.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

25.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

26.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Hitopadesa

29.

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

Knowles, F. M.

30.

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

Hull, Raymond

31.

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

Pancoast, Mal

32.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Cosby, Bill

39.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

42.

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

Hesiod

43.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

47.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

48.

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

49.

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

Rowland, Helen

50.

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