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

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

10.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

11.

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

Rita Rudner

12.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

13.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

14.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

15.

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

16.

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

Baskins

17.

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

Victoria, Queen

18.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

19.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

20.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

22.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

23.

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

Irving, Washington

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Congreve, William

27.

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

Chopin, Daniel

28.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

30.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

Hitopadesa

32.

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

33.

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

34.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

35.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

36.

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

Proverb, German

37.

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

38.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

39.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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

Barrymore, John

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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

43.

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

44.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

45.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

46.

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

Cosby, Bill

47.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De