Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

10.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

13.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

14.

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

Hull, Raymond

15.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

16.

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

Duncan, Isadora

17.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

18.

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

Coward, Noel

19.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

21.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

22.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

24.

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

Balzac, Honore De

25.

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

Will Rogers

26.

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

Carson, Johnny

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Vries, Peter De

31.

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

32.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

33.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

34.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

35.

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

36.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

37.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

38.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

42.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

43.

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

Kathleen Norris

44.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

45.

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

Andre Maurois

46.

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

Diller, Phyllis

47.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

48.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

49.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

50.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De