Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Maurois, Andre

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Vass, Susan

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

10.

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

11.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

12.

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

Miller, Harlan

13.

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

14.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

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

16.

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

Bundy, Peg

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Vries, Peter De

20.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

21.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

23.

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

Rita Rudner

24.

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

25.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

26.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

27.

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

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

30.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

31.

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

32.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

33.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

34.

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

35.

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

Smith, Sydney

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.

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

38.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

42.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

43.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

44.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

45.

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

Nick Faldo

46.

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

Mae West

47.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

48.

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

49.

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

50.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von