Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Balzac, Honore De

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Miller, Harlan

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

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

Proverb

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

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.

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

Moliere

11.

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

Duncan, Isadora

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

14.

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

15.

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

Updike, John

16.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

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

18.

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

19.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

20.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

21.

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

22.

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

Rowland, Helen

23.

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

24.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

30.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

33.

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

34.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Cosby, Bill

38.

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.

39.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

41.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

42.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

46.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

47.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

48.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.