Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bible

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Halen

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

Baskins

10.

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

11.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

12.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

14.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

15.

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

Key, Ellen

16.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Congreve, William

19.

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

20.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

21.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

22.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

24.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

25.

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

Proverb

26.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

27.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

29.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

30.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Proverb, Scottish

33.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

34.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

36.

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

Alexander, Shana

37.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

38.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

39.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

40.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

41.

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

Rieux, Madame De

42.

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

Bible

43.

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