Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Marriage

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Fox, Michael J.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

10.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

11.

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

Thomason, Pauline

12.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

13.

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

Chopin, Daniel

14.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

15.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

Vass, Susan

17.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

18.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

19.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

20.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

21.

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

22.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

23.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

25.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

26.

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

27.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

30.

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

Hull, Raymond

31.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

32.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

34.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

43.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

44.

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

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

Marx, Groucho

46.

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

47.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Congreve, William