Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

2.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

3.

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

Congreve, William

4.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

8.

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

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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.

11.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

16.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

17.

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

18.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

21.

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

Duncan, Isadora

22.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

23.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

24.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

25.

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

26.

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

27.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

28.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

30.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

31.

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

Winters, Shelley

32.

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

Andre Maurois

33.

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

Bennett, Jill

34.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

35.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

40.

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

41.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

42.

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

Knowles, F. M.

43.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

47.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

49.

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

50.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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