Motivational Quotes

Marriage

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

- Skelton, Red

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

10.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

12.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

14.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Novalis

17.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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

20.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

21.

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

22.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

25.

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

Miller, Harlan

26.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

27.

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

28.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

29.

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

30.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

37.

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.

38.

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

Mead, Margaret

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

41.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

42.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

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

44.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

45.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

50.

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