Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Halen

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Lennon, John

15.

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

Chopin, Daniel

16.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

17.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

18.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

19.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

20.

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

Maurois, Andre

21.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

23.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

24.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

25.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

26.

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

Vass, Susan

27.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

28.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

29.

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

Miller, Harlan

30.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

31.

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

Duncan, Isadora

32.

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

Proverb, German

33.

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

Irving, Washington

34.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

35.

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.

36.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

37.

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

Mencken, H. L.

38.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

40.

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

Maurois, Andre

41.

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

Sunday, Billy

42.

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

Hitopadesa

43.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

44.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

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

Balzac, Honore De

47.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

48.

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

49.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

50.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa