Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Chatterton, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

10.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

12.

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

Kinison, Sam

13.

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

Winters, Shelley

14.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

15.

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

Pancoast, Mal

16.

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

17.

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

Novalis

18.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

19.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

20.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

21.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

22.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Victoria, Queen

26.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

27.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

29.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

30.

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

Rita Rudner

31.

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

32.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

Ruckett

34.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

35.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

37.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

38.

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

39.

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

40.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

41.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

43.

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

44.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

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

Connolly, Cyril

49.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

50.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare