Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

Vass, Susan

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

William Shakespeare

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

10.

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

Updike, John

11.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

Cosby, Bill

13.

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

Heine, Heinrich

14.

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

15.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

16.

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

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

Rooney, Mickey

18.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

19.

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

Penn, William

20.

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

21.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

Bennett, Jill

23.

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

Maurois, Andre

24.

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.

Landers, Ann

25.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Victoria, Queen

28.

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

Rudner, Rita

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

32.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

33.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

34.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

35.

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.

36.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

37.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

40.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

41.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

42.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Hitopadesa

46.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

47.

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

48.

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

Wilde, Oscar

49.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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