Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Duncan, Isadora

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Baum, Vicki

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Sunday, Billy

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

10.

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

11.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

12.

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

13.

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

Vries, Peter De

14.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

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

16.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

17.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

18.

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

19.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

20.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

21.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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

Maurois, Andre

27.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

28.

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

Andre Maurois

29.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

30.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

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

32.

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

Halen

33.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

34.

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

35.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Proverb

38.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

39.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

40.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

44.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

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

Mickey Rooney

46.

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

47.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

48.

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

49.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

50.

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

Barrymore, John