Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mickey Rooney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Novalis

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

12.

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

Rooney, Mickey

13.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

14.

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

15.

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

Coward, Noel

16.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

17.

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

Murray, Joe

18.

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

19.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

20.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

22.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

25.

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

Maurois, Andre

26.

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

27.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

28.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

29.

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

Billings, Josh

30.

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

Peter Blake

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

34.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

35.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

36.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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.

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

39.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

40.

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

Rita Rudner

41.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

42.

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

Nick Faldo

43.

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

46.

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

Hitopadesa

47.

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

Updike, John

48.

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

William Shakespeare

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