Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Ruckett

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

Carson, Johnny

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

10.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

11.

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

12.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

15.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

16.

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

West, Mae

17.

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

18.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

20.

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

Wilson, Earl

21.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

22.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

23.

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

24.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

25.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

26.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

27.

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

28.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Duncan, Isadora

32.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

33.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

34.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

35.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

36.

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

Proverb

37.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

38.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

39.

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

Victoria, Queen

40.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

41.

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

42.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

45.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

48.

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

Updike, John

49.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

50.

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.