Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bible

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

10.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

Murray, Joe

12.

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

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

15.

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

16.

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

Rowland, Helen

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

19.

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

Skelton, Red

20.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

21.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

22.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

24.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

26.

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

Smith, Sydney

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

31.

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

West, Mae

32.

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

Chopin, Daniel

33.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Rita Rudner

35.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

36.

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

Wilder, Thornton

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

41.

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

Irving, Washington

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

45.

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

Hitopadesa

46.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.