Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Samuel, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Byron, Lord

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

Barrymore, John

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Updike, John

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

10.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

13.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

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.

Ann Landers

15.

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

Carson, Johnny

16.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

17.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

18.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

19.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

20.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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

Mickey Rooney

22.

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

Pancoast, Mal

23.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

28.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

29.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

30.

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

Graham, James

31.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

34.

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

Cosby, Bill

35.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

36.

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

Byron, Lord

37.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

38.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

39.

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

Nick Faldo

40.

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

41.

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

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Myers, Cecil

45.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

46.

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

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Hitopadesa

49.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

50.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.