Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

2.

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

Harrison, Jane

3.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

4.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

5.

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

6.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

7.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

8.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

9.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

10.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

11.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

12.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

14.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

15.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

16.

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

Sunday, Billy

17.

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

Penn, William

18.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

19.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Wilder, Thornton

22.

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

23.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

24.

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

25.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

26.

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

Mae West

27.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

28.

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

Proverb, German

29.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Scottish

32.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

33.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

35.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

36.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

37.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

38.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

39.

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

Ford, Richard

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Maurois, Andre

43.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

44.

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

45.

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

Bundy, Peg