Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

- Knowles, F. M.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Grizzard, Lewis

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

12.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Sunday, Billy

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Novalis

22.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

23.

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

24.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

25.

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

Coward, Noel

26.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

27.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

Peter Blake

29.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

30.

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

Dave Meurer

31.

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

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

34.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

35.

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

36.

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

Byron, Lord

37.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

38.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

Rita Rudner

43.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

44.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Bundy, Peg

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Proverb, Spanish