Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Mae West

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Skelton, Red

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

10.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

11.

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

Rooney, Mickey

12.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

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

Knowles, F. M.

14.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

15.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Rowland, Helen

17.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

18.

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

Prior, Matthew

19.

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

20.

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

Eucharista Ward

21.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

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

Mickey Rooney

24.

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

Cosby, Bill

25.

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

26.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

27.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

31.

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

Will Rogers

32.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

33.

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

Proverb, Scottish

34.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Wilder, Thornton

36.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

37.

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

38.

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

Jong, Erica

39.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

40.

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.

41.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

45.

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

46.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

47.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

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

Marx, Groucho

49.

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

Vries, Peter De

50.

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

Proverb, German