Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Andre Maurois

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

10.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Irving, Washington

13.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

14.

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.

15.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

18.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

19.

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

20.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

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

22.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

23.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

24.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

25.

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

Wycherley, William

26.

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

Nick Faldo

27.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

28.

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

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

32.

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

Carson, Johnny

33.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

34.

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

Victoria, Queen

35.

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

Smalley, Gary

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Bush, Barbara

41.

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

42.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

43.

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

Clarke, W. A.

44.

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

Vries, Peter De

45.

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

Allen, Woody

46.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

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

48.

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

Skelton, Red

49.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

50.

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