Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Peter Blake

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Kinison, Sam

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Coward, Noel

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

Graham, James

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

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.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

10.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

12.

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

Mae West

13.

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

Key, Ellen

14.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

17.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

18.

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

Maurois, Andre

19.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

20.

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

21.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

22.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

23.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

24.

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

Hesiod

25.

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

26.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Murray, Joe

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

35.

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

Thomason, Pauline

36.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

37.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

38.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

39.

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

40.

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

Chopin, Daniel

41.

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

Bennett, Jill

42.

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

Vries, Peter De

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

46.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

47.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

48.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

49.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von