Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Marriage

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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

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

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rowland, Helen

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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.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

14.

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

Rieux, Madame De

15.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

20.

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

Marx, Groucho

21.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

22.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

27.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

32.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

34.

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

35.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

37.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

38.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Spencer, Herbert

42.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

43.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

44.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

45.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

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

Rooney, Mickey

47.

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

Kinison, Sam

48.

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

49.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

50.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa