Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Updike, John

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Maurois, Andre

10.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

12.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

16.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

17.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

18.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

19.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

21.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

22.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

23.

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

24.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

25.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

30.

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

Barrymore, John

31.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

32.

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

Key, Ellen

33.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

34.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

35.

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

36.

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

Peter Blake

37.

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

38.

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

Connolly, Cyril

39.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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

42.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Bible

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.

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

47.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

48.

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

Mencken, H. L.

49.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

50.

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