Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

2.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

3.

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

Rowland, Helen

4.

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

Maurois, Andre

5.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

6.

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

7.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

8.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

9.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

10.

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

Murray, Joe

11.

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

Heine, Heinrich

12.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

13.

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

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

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

16.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

17.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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.

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

Sunday, Billy

20.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

21.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

22.

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

Chopin, Daniel

23.

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

24.

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

Bennett, Jill

25.

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

Proverb, German

26.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Coward, Noel

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

31.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

32.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

Novalis

34.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Marx, Groucho

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

41.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

42.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

43.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

44.

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

Alexander, Shana

45.

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

Thomason, Pauline

46.

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

Mickey Rooney

47.

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

Samuel, Herbert

48.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

49.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

50.

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