Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

- Clarke, W. A.

Best Quotes about Marriage

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Hesiod

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

11.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

12.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

13.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Winters, Shelley

17.

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

Mae West

18.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

19.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

20.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

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

Myers, Cecil

23.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Eucharista Ward

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

29.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

30.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

31.

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

Hitopadesa

32.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

33.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

34.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

35.

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

36.

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

37.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

38.

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

Diller, Phyllis

39.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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.

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

42.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

43.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

44.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

45.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

46.

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

47.

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

Irving, Washington

48.

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

Rita Rudner

49.

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

50.

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