Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Graham, James

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

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

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

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

10.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

11.

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

Bush, Barbara

12.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

13.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

14.

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

15.

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

16.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

17.

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

18.

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

Winters, Shelley

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

20.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

21.

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

Smith, Sydney

22.

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

23.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

26.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

28.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

32.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

38.

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

Baum, Vicki

39.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

41.

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

Mencken, H. L.

42.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

45.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

46.

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

Alexander, Shana

47.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

48.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

49.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

50.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi