Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

2.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

3.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

4.

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

5.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

6.

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

Kathleen Norris

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Penn, William

10.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

11.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

12.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

13.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

14.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

15.

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

Marx, Groucho

16.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

17.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

20.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

21.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

22.

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

Mae West

23.

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

Novalis

24.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

25.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

26.

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

29.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

30.

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

31.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

32.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

33.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

34.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

35.

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

Vass, Susan

36.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

37.

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

Bundy, Peg

38.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

39.

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

40.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

41.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

43.

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

Smith, Sydney

44.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

45.

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

46.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

47.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

48.

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

Young, Brigham

49.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

50.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma