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

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Byron, Lord

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

10.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

15.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

16.

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

Nick Faldo

17.

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

18.

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

Kauffman, Max

19.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

20.

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

21.

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

22.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

23.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

24.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

25.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

26.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

29.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

30.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

32.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

33.

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

Irving, Washington

34.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

35.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

36.

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

37.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

38.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

41.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Scottish

44.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

45.

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

Proverb, Scottish

46.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

47.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

48.

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