Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Landers, Ann

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

10.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

14.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Bible

16.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

17.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

18.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

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

Knowles, F. M.

22.

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

Carson, Johnny

23.

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

24.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

25.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

28.

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

29.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

30.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

32.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

33.

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

34.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

35.

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

Baskins

36.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

38.

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

Skelton, Red

39.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

40.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

41.

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

42.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

43.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

44.

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

Chopin, Daniel

45.

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

Proverb

46.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

48.

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

Vries, Peter De

49.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

50.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa