Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nick Faldo

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

Jong, Erica

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

10.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

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.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

16.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

17.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

18.

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

Connolly, Cyril

19.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

20.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

21.

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

22.

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

23.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

24.

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

25.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

26.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

27.

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

Elizabeth I

28.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

31.

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

Winters, Shelley

32.

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

33.

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

Spencer, Herbert

34.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

35.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

36.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

37.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

38.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

Cosby, Bill

40.

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

Congreve, William

41.

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

42.

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

Sunday, Billy

43.

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

Will Rogers

44.

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

45.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

46.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

47.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

48.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare