Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hesiod

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Mead, Margaret

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

10.

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

11.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

12.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

13.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

14.

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

Alexander, Shana

15.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

22.

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

Peter Blake

23.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

27.

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

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

30.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Wilson, Earl

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Maurois, Andre

35.

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

Novalis

36.

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

Maurois, Andre

37.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

38.

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

Murray, Joe

39.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

Irving, Washington

41.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

42.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

43.

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

44.

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

Heine, Heinrich

45.

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

46.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

47.

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

48.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

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.

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois