Motivational Quotes

Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Vass, Susan

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

10.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

11.

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

Hitopadesa

12.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

13.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

16.

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

Mead, Margaret

17.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

18.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

19.

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

West, Mae

20.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

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

22.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

25.

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

Kinison, Sam

26.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

28.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

29.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

30.

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

Farquhar, George

31.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Winters, Shelley

33.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

34.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

35.

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

Spencer, Herbert

36.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

37.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

40.

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

41.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

42.

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

43.

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

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

45.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

46.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

47.

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.

48.

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

Proverb, Scottish

49.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

50.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La