Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Allen, Woody

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

Hitopadesa

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

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Lennon, John

10.

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

Duncan, Isadora

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

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

13.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

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

Proverb

15.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

16.

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

Balzac, Honore De

17.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

18.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

19.

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

Graham, James

20.

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

21.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

22.

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

23.

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

Young, Brigham

24.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

25.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

26.

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

27.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

28.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

31.

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

32.

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

33.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

34.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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 is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

39.

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

Kauffman, Max

40.

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

41.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

42.

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

Wilson, Earl

43.

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

Mickey Rooney

44.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

45.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

46.

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

Mae West

47.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

48.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

Irving, Washington

50.

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

Proverb, Spanish