Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

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

Nick Faldo

2.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

3.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

4.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

5.

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

6.

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

Mencken, H. L.

7.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

8.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

9.

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

10.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

12.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

13.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

14.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

15.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

16.

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

Peter Blake

17.

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

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Mead, Margaret

20.

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

Proverb, Scottish

21.

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

22.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

23.

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

24.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Irving, Washington

26.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

27.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

28.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

29.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

30.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

31.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

32.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

33.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

37.

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

38.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

39.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

40.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

41.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

42.

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

Samuel, Herbert

43.

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

Rudner, Rita

44.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

45.

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

Miller, Harlan

46.

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

Mae West

47.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

49.

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

Hitopadesa

50.

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