Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Sunday, Billy

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

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

Halen

12.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

14.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

15.

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

Proverb, Scottish

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

22.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

23.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

26.

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

Graham, James

27.

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

Vries, Peter De

28.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

29.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

30.

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

Moliere

31.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

32.

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

Duncan, Isadora

33.

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

Mickey Rooney

34.

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

Ziglar, Zig

35.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

36.

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

37.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

38.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

39.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

40.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

41.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Baum, Vicki

44.

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

Hitopadesa

45.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

46.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

47.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

48.

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

Chopin, Daniel

49.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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