Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Vass, Susan

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

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Rita Rudner

10.

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

Ruckett

12.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

14.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

17.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Kathleen Norris

20.

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

Andre Maurois

21.

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

Smith, Sydney

22.

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

Rowland, Helen

23.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

24.

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

25.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

30.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

31.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

32.

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

Eucharista Ward

33.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

34.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

35.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

36.

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

37.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

38.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

39.

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

Nick Faldo

40.

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

Diller, Phyllis

41.

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

42.

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

Winters, Shelley

43.

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

Bundy, Peg

44.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

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

47.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

48.

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

49.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

50.

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