Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dangerfield, Rodney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb

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

Duncan, Isadora

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Harrison, Jane

10.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

11.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

12.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

13.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

14.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

15.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

17.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hitopadesa

21.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

22.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

23.

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

24.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

25.

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

Farquhar, George

26.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

27.

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

28.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

34.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

35.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

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

Smith, Sydney

39.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

40.

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

Thomason, Pauline

41.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Winters, Shelley

45.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

46.

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

Vries, Peter De

47.

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

48.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

49.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg