Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

2.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

3.

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

4.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

5.

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

Graham, James

6.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

7.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

8.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

9.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

10.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

11.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

Carson, Johnny

13.

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

14.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

15.

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

16.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

20.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

22.

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

23.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

24.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

25.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

26.

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

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

29.

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

Maurois, Andre

30.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

31.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

32.

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

33.

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

Moliere

34.

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

Vass, Susan

35.

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

Victoria, Queen

36.

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

Thomason, Pauline

37.

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

Rita Rudner

38.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

39.

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

Will Rogers

40.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

44.

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

Mae West

45.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

46.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.