Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Marriage

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Elizabeth I

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

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

10.

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

11.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

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

Andre Maurois

14.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

15.

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

Vass, Susan

16.

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

Rita Rudner

17.

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

18.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

19.

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

Novalis

20.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Cosby, Bill

22.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

23.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

24.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Proverb, Scottish

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Wycherley, William

29.

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

Proverb, Scottish

30.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

31.

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

Myers, Cecil

32.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

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

Irving, Washington

35.

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

36.

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

37.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

38.

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

Murray, Joe

39.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, German

42.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

43.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

44.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

45.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

46.

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

47.

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

Carson, Johnny

48.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden