Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Marriage

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Andre Maurois

11.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

13.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

14.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

15.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

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

18.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

19.

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

20.

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

Lennon, John

21.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

22.

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

23.

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

24.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

25.

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

26.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

27.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

28.

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

Proverb

29.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

30.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

31.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

Mickey Rooney

34.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

35.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

38.

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

Graham, James

39.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

40.

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

Duncan, Isadora

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Winters, Shelley

43.

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

44.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

46.

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

Rudner, Rita

47.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

48.

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

49.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

50.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.