Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

10.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

11.

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

12.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

13.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

14.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

15.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

16.

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

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Victoria, Queen

19.

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

Wycherley, William

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Halen

29.

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

30.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

31.

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

32.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

33.

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

Heine, Heinrich

34.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

35.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

36.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

37.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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.

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

40.

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

Rowland, Helen

41.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

42.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

43.

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

44.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

45.

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

46.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

47.

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

Victoria, Queen

48.

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

Bible

49.

Marriage is the sunset of love.