Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

- Homer

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

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Coward, Noel

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

Chopin, Daniel

10.

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

11.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

13.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

14.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

15.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

16.

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

17.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

18.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

19.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

20.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

23.

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

Irving, Washington

24.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

25.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

26.

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

27.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

28.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

30.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

31.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

32.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

Helen Rowland

38.

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

39.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

40.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

41.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

42.

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

Winters, Shelley

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Marx, Groucho

47.

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

48.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

49.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

50.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William