Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Gaskell, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Marriage

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Elizabeth I

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Luther, Martin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

11.

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

Duncan, Isadora

12.

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

13.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Pearl Buck

16.

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

Proverb

17.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

19.

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

Andre Maurois

20.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

22.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

23.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

25.

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

Vries, Peter De

26.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

27.

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

Bible

28.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

29.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

30.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

31.

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

32.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

33.

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

Sunday, Billy

34.

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

Mead, Margaret

35.

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

36.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

37.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

38.

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

Pancoast, Mal

39.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

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

41.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

42.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

43.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

47.

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

Will Rogers

48.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

49.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.