Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

- Boone, Pat

Best Quotes about Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, German

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

Luther, Martin

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

10.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

13.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

14.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

15.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

16.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

17.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

18.

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

19.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

20.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

23.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

24.

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

25.

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

Knowles, F. M.

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

28.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

29.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

30.

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

Congreve, William

31.

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

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

34.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

35.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

36.

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

Graham, James

37.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

38.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

39.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

42.

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

43.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

44.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

45.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

46.

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

Will Rogers

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Peter Blake

50.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic