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

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Baskins

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

10.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

11.

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

12.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

13.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

14.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

16.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Skelton, Red

19.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

20.

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

West, Mae

21.

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

22.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

23.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

24.

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

25.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

26.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

28.

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

Rita Rudner

29.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

33.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

34.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

35.

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

Allen, Woody

36.

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

Samuel, Herbert

37.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

38.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

40.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

41.

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

42.

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

Mae West

43.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

44.

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

Updike, John

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

48.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

49.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

50.

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