Motivational Quotes

Marriage

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Hitopadesa

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Rita Rudner

10.

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

Carson, Johnny

11.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

12.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

13.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

14.

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

Wilson, Earl

15.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

16.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

17.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

18.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

19.

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

20.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

21.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

22.

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

23.

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

Heine, Heinrich

24.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

25.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

26.

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

Rita Rudner

27.

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

Hitopadesa

28.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

29.

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

Peter Blake

30.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

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

Thomason, Pauline

33.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

34.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

35.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

36.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

37.

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

Prior, Matthew

38.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

39.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

40.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

42.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

43.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

44.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

46.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

47.

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

Mencken, H. L.

48.

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

Bundy, Peg

49.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen