Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Marriage

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

13.

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

14.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

15.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

16.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Marx, Groucho

20.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

21.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

27.

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

Skelton, Red

28.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

29.

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

30.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

31.

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

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

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

34.

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

West, Mae

35.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

36.

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

37.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

38.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

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

Kinison, Sam

41.

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

42.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

43.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

44.

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

45.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

46.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

47.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

48.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.