Motivational Quotes

Marriage

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Marriage

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Murray, Joe

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Eucharista Ward

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

William Shakespeare

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

Vries, Peter De

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

10.

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

11.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

12.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

13.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

14.

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

15.

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

Thomason, Pauline

16.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

17.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Marx, Groucho

20.

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

Coward, Noel

21.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

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

23.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

24.

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

Irving, Washington

25.

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

26.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Skelton, Red

29.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

30.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

35.

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

Bundy, Peg

36.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Samuel, Herbert

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

42.

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

Duncan, Isadora

43.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

44.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

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

46.

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

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

48.

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

49.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

50.

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