Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

- Mcginley, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

Skelton, Red

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Sunday, Billy

10.

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

Cosby, Bill

11.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

12.

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

13.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Connolly, Cyril

15.

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

Marx, Groucho

16.

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

17.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

20.

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

21.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

22.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

23.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

24.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

25.

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

Carson, Johnny

26.

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

27.

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

Mae West

28.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

29.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

31.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

32.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

33.

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

Heine, Heinrich

34.

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

35.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

39.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

44.

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

45.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

46.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

47.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

48.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.