Motivational Quotes

Marriage

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

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

Chatterton, Thomas

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

12.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

14.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

16.

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

Elizabeth I

17.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

18.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

19.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

20.

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

Irving, Washington

21.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Sunday, Billy

26.

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

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

31.

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

Maurois, Andre

32.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

33.

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

34.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

39.

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

Bundy, Peg

40.

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

41.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

42.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

43.

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

44.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

45.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

46.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

47.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

49.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

50.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.