Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Farquhar, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dave Meurer

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

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Victoria, Queen

11.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

12.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

13.

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

14.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Irving, Washington

19.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

20.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

24.

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

Clarke, W. A.

25.

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

Nick Faldo

26.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

27.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Hull, Raymond

31.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

32.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Diller, Phyllis

37.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

38.

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

Vries, Peter De

39.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

41.

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

42.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

43.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

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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

48.

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

49.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

50.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden