Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Rita Rudner

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

10.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

11.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

12.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

13.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

14.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

15.

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

Rooney, Mickey

16.

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

Bible

17.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Proverb

19.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

20.

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

21.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

22.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

23.

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

24.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

25.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Bush, Barbara

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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

29.

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

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.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

32.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

33.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Congreve, William

35.

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

36.

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

Mae West

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

39.

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

Hitopadesa

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

43.

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

Graham, James

44.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.