Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

- Will Rogers

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Proverb, Spanish

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

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

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

10.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

11.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

13.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

14.

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

15.

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

16.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

19.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

20.

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

Spencer, Herbert

21.

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

22.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

23.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

24.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Mae West

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

28.

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

Nick Faldo

29.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

30.

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

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

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

33.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

34.

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

35.

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

Cosby, Bill

36.

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

Victoria, Queen

37.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

38.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

39.

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

Proverb, German

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

42.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

43.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

45.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

46.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

47.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

48.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

49.

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

Jong, Erica

50.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.