Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

Bennett, Jill

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

10.

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

11.

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

Connolly, Cyril

12.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Myers, Cecil

14.

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

15.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

16.

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

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

19.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

20.

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

Andre Maurois

21.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

22.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

23.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

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

26.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Spencer, Herbert

28.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

29.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

30.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

31.

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

Skelton, Red

32.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

33.

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

34.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

38.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

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

Sunday, Billy

40.

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

Proverb

41.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

42.

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