Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

- Mae West

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

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

Proverb

2.

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

Rowland, Helen

3.

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

Vries, Peter De

4.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

5.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

6.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

7.

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

Kauffman, Max

8.

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

Barrymore, John

9.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

13.

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

Miller, Harlan

14.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

15.

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

16.

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

Baskins

17.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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

19.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

20.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

24.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

25.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

26.

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

Rita Rudner

27.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

28.

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

29.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

30.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

31.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Bible

35.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

36.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

43.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

44.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

45.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.