Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rieux, Madame De

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

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

2.

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

Young, Brigham

3.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

4.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

5.

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

6.

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

Sunday, Billy

7.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

8.

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

Victoria, Queen

9.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Samuel, Herbert

14.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

15.

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

16.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

19.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

25.

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

26.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

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

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

29.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

30.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.

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

Diller, Phyllis

32.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

35.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

36.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

37.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

38.

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

39.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

40.

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

41.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

42.

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

Andre Maurois