Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Novalis

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Rita Rudner

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

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

11.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

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.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

14.

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

Victoria, Queen

15.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

16.

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

17.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

18.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

19.

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

Vass, Susan

20.

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

Bush, Barbara

21.

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

Will Rogers

22.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

23.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

24.

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

25.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

26.

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

Key, Ellen

27.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

28.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

29.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

30.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

32.

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

Proverb

33.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

34.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

37.

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

38.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

42.

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

43.

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

Murray, Joe

44.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

47.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas