Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Hesiod

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

11.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

13.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Bundy, Peg

16.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

17.

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

Pancoast, Mal

18.

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

19.

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

Spencer, Herbert

20.

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

21.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

24.

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

25.

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

26.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

29.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

30.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

31.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

32.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

35.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

36.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

37.

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

Marx, Groucho

38.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

40.

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

Rooney, Mickey

41.

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

Heine, Heinrich

42.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

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

Halen

44.

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

45.

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

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.

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

Elizabeth I

48.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

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

Andre Maurois