Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

- Candice Bergen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

Proverb

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

Myers, Cecil

12.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

13.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

14.

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

Harrison, Jane

15.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

Irving, Washington

18.

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

Murray, Joe

19.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Will Rogers

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

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

23.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

24.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

25.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

26.

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

27.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

28.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Chopin, Daniel

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

33.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

34.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

36.

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

37.

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

Kathleen Norris

38.

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

Mead, Margaret

39.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

40.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

41.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

42.

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

Duncan, Isadora

43.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Winters, Shelley

47.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

48.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

49.

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

50.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat