Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Hull, Raymond

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Landers, Ann

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

10.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

11.

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

Murray, Joe

12.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

13.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

14.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Young, Brigham

17.

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

Will Rogers

18.

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

19.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

20.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

21.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

23.

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

Elizabeth I

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Rita Rudner

26.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

27.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

31.

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

32.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

33.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb

36.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

37.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

38.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

39.

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

40.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

41.

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

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

44.

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

Mickey Rooney

45.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

46.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

47.

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

Ziglar, Zig

48.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

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

Irving, Washington

50.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid