Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Proverb

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Helen Rowland

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

15.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

16.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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

19.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

20.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

21.

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

Duncan, Isadora

22.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

23.

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

24.

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

25.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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.

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

28.

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

29.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

30.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Nick Faldo

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Knowles, F. M.

43.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

44.

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

45.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

46.

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

47.

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

Rudner, Rita

48.

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

49.

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

Fuller, Thomas

50.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden