Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Young, Brigham

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Barrymore, John

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Hitopadesa

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

12.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

13.

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

Rudner, Rita

14.

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

Thomason, Pauline

15.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

16.

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

Rooney, Mickey

17.

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

Ruckett

18.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

19.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

20.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

21.

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

Rieux, Madame De

22.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

23.

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

Rowland, Helen

24.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, German

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Elizabeth I

30.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

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

32.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

36.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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.

38.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

39.

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

40.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

41.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

42.

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

43.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

44.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

45.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

46.

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

47.

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

48.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

50.

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

Proverb