Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ruckett

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kinison, Sam

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Byron, Lord

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

10.

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

Coward, Noel

11.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

13.

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

14.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

15.

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

Bennett, Jill

16.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

17.

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

Vries, Peter De

18.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

19.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

21.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

22.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

24.

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

Ford, Richard

25.

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

26.

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

Halen

27.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

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

29.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

30.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

31.

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

Nick Faldo

32.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

33.

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

34.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

36.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

37.

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

38.

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

Chopin, Daniel

39.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

40.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

41.

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

42.

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

Hull, Raymond

43.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

44.

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

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