Motivational Quotes

Marriage

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Vries, Peter De

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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 obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Baskins

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

10.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

12.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

13.

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

14.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

15.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

16.

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

Victoria, Queen

17.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

18.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

19.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

20.

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

21.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

22.

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

Penn, William

23.

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

24.

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb

28.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

30.

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

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

Mae West

34.

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

35.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

36.

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

Prior, Matthew

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

39.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

41.

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

Wilson, Earl

42.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

44.

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

45.

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

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

47.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

48.

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

49.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

50.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce