Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Kinison, Sam

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

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

Updike, John

11.

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

12.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

14.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

15.

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

Clarke, W. A.

16.

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

17.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

18.

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

Victoria, Queen

19.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

20.

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

Prior, Matthew

21.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

26.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

28.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

29.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

30.

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

Murray, Joe

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.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

33.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

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

Hitopadesa

40.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

41.

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

42.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

44.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

45.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

46.

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

Thomason, Pauline

47.

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.

48.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

49.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

50.

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