Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Congreve, William

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

Victoria, Queen

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

18.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

19.

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

Coward, Noel

20.

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

Mae West

21.

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

22.

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

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.

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

25.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

26.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

27.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

28.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Rita Rudner

31.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

32.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

33.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

34.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

35.

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

36.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

37.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

38.

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

Moliere

39.

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

40.

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

Kinison, Sam

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

44.

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

Chopin, Daniel

45.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

46.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

47.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

48.

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

49.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

50.

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

Miller, Harlan