Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Rita Rudner

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

William Shakespeare

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

Baum, Vicki

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Proverb, Scottish

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

11.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

14.

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

15.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

16.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

17.

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

Bush, Barbara

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

23.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

24.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

25.

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

26.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

27.

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

28.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Prior, Matthew

30.

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

Cosby, Bill

31.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

32.

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

33.

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

Pancoast, Mal

34.

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

Key, Ellen

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

Vries, Peter De

38.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

39.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

40.

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

Ruckett

41.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

43.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

44.

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

Irving, Washington

45.

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

46.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

47.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

48.

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

Chopin, Daniel

49.

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

Winters, Shelley

50.

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