Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hitopadesa

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

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

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Elizabeth I

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Bible

12.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

13.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

16.

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

Proverb, German

17.

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

Cosby, Bill

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Connolly, Cyril

22.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

23.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

24.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

25.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

31.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

32.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

33.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

34.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

35.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

36.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

37.

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

Murray, Joe

38.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

39.

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

Alexander, Shana

40.

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

41.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

43.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

45.

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

Duncan, Isadora

46.

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

Byron, Lord

47.

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

48.

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

Luther, Martin

49.

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

50.

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