Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Irving, Washington

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

11.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

12.

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

Bush, Barbara

13.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

14.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Kathleen Norris

20.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

23.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

24.

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

Smalley, Gary

25.

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

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

28.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

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

30.

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

Victoria, Queen

31.

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

Samuel, Herbert

32.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

34.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

35.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

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

40.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

44.

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

Skelton, Red

45.

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

Mead, Margaret

46.

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

47.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

48.

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

49.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

50.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea