Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

- Dave Meurer

Best Quotes about Marriage

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Luther, Martin

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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.

Ann Landers

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

Young, Brigham

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Novalis

13.

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

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

17.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

18.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

19.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

20.

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

21.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

22.

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

23.

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

Pearl Buck

24.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

25.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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

Vries, Peter De

28.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

29.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

30.

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

31.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

32.

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

Murray, Joe

33.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

34.

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

Updike, John

35.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

36.

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

Cosby, Bill

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

42.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

43.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

44.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

45.

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

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

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

Wycherley, William

48.

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

49.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

50.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic