Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Smalley, Gary

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Hesiod

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

William Shakespeare

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

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Eucharista Ward

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

10.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Rowland, Helen

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

18.

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

19.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

20.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

21.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

22.

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

Key, Ellen

23.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

24.

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

Miller, Harlan

25.

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

Young, Brigham

26.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

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

28.

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

29.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

30.

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

Hitopadesa

31.

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

32.

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

Duncan, Isadora

33.

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

Novalis

34.

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

35.

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

Cosby, Bill

36.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

37.

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

Allen, Woody

38.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

39.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

40.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

41.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

48.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

50.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra