Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Marriage

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Harrison, Jane

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb

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

Miller, Harlan

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

10.

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

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

12.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

13.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

14.

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

15.

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

Rudner, Rita

16.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

17.

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

18.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

19.

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

20.

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

Smith, Sydney

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

23.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

24.

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

25.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

26.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

27.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

31.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

32.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

34.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

35.

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

36.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

37.

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

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

40.

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

Mickey Rooney

41.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

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

Baskins

43.

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

44.

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

Rita Rudner

45.

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

Rooney, Mickey

46.

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

Connolly, Cyril

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Winters, Shelley

50.

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

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