Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Barrymore, John

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Cosby, Bill

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

10.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

13.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

14.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

15.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

16.

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

Sunday, Billy

17.

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

Mae West

18.

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

Kathleen Norris

19.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

20.

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

Thomason, Pauline

21.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

22.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

23.

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

Victoria, Queen

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

26.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

27.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

28.

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

Chopin, Daniel

29.

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

30.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

31.

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

32.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

33.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

34.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

35.

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

36.

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

Pancoast, Mal

37.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

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

Knowles, F. M.

43.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

44.

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

Will Rogers

45.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

46.

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

Helen Rowland

47.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

48.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

49.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De