Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Clarke, W. A.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Carson, Johnny

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Connolly, Cyril

15.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

18.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

19.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

22.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

23.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

24.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Winters, Shelley

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

30.

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

31.

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

Peter Blake

32.

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

Victoria, Queen

33.

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

Andre Maurois

34.

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

35.

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

Halen

36.

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

37.

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

Elizabeth I

38.

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

Alexander, Shana

39.

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

Luther, Martin

40.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

41.

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

42.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

46.

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

Kauffman, Max

47.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De