Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ziglar, Zig

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

12.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Bush, Barbara

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

18.

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

Proverb

19.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

20.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

21.

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

22.

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

Balzac, Honore De

23.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

24.

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

25.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Spencer, Herbert

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Elizabeth I

29.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

30.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

31.

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

32.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

33.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

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

Clarke, W. A.

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

38.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

39.

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

40.

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

Maurois, Andre

41.

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

Bundy, Peg

42.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

43.

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

Graham, James

44.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

45.

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

Murray, Joe

46.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

47.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

49.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De