Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Pancoast, Mal

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

10.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

11.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

12.

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

Eucharista Ward

13.

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

14.

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

Ford, Richard

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Penn, William

17.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

18.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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.

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

Halen

21.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

22.

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

23.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

24.

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

Duncan, Isadora

25.

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

Sunday, Billy

26.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

27.

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

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

Cosby, Bill

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

33.

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

Carson, Johnny

34.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

35.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

36.

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

37.

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

38.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

40.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

41.

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

42.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

43.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

44.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

45.

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

Nick Faldo

46.

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

47.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

49.

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

50.

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