Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

- Bunker, Archie

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Congreve, William

10.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb

15.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

16.

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

Rooney, Mickey

17.

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

18.

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

Hitopadesa

19.

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

20.

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

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

22.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

23.

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

24.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

26.

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

Elizabeth I

27.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

28.

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

Barrymore, John

29.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

30.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Farquhar, George

35.

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

36.

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

Vass, Susan

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

39.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

40.

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

41.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

48.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

49.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

50.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat