Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Hesiod

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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.

10.

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

Duncan, Isadora

11.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

13.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Proverb

15.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

16.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

17.

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

18.

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

Bennett, Jill

19.

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

20.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

21.

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

Samuel, Herbert

22.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

23.

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

24.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

25.

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

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

28.

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

29.

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

Wilder, Thornton

30.

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

31.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

38.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Murray, Joe

40.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

41.

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

42.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

43.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

44.

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

Duncan, Isadora

45.

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

Ruckett

46.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

47.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

48.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.