Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bible

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

11.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

12.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

15.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

16.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

17.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

18.

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

19.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

20.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

21.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

22.

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

Winters, Shelley

23.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

24.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

25.

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

Balzac, Honore De

26.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

27.

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

Wilder, Thornton

28.

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

29.

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

30.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

35.

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

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

38.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

39.

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

Elizabeth I

40.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

41.

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

Skelton, Red

42.

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

Samuel, Herbert

43.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

44.

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

Barrymore, John

45.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

46.

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

Connolly, Cyril

47.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

48.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

49.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

50.

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