Motivational Quotes

Marriage

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Marriage

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Vass, Susan

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Bible

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Updike, John

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

12.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

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

Hitopadesa

14.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

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

17.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

18.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

19.

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.

20.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

21.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

22.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

23.

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

Alexander, Shana

24.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

25.

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.

26.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

27.

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

Farquhar, George

28.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

29.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

31.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

33.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

34.

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

Vries, Peter De

35.

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

Connolly, Cyril

36.

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

Ford, Richard

37.

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

38.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

39.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

44.

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

West, Mae

45.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

46.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

47.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

48.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

49.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony