Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

Penn, William

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Prior, Matthew

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

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

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

10.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

12.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

14.

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

Nick Faldo

15.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

16.

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

Mae West

17.

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

18.

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

Myers, Cecil

19.

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

Murray, Joe

20.

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

21.

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

Luther, Martin

22.

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

Elizabeth I

23.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Novalis

25.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

30.

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

Bennett, Jill

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

36.

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

Sunday, Billy

37.

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

Hesiod

38.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

39.

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

Wilder, Thornton

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Coward, Noel

46.

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