Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Elizabeth I

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

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

Bennett, Jill

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Maurois, Andre

10.

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

Young, Brigham

11.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

12.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

15.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

17.

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

Nick Faldo

18.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

19.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

20.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

21.

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

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

24.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

25.

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

Lennon, John

26.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

28.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Marx, Groucho

30.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

31.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

32.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

33.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

34.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

35.

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

Murray, Joe

36.

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

37.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

38.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

41.

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.

Landers, Ann

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

45.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

46.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

47.

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

Rita Rudner

48.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

49.

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

50.

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