Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Byron, Lord

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

11.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Farquhar, George

14.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

15.

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

Skelton, Red

16.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

17.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

18.

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

19.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

20.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

21.

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

22.

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

23.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Chopin, Daniel

25.

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

26.

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

29.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

30.

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

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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

32.

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

33.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

34.

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

Moliere

35.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

36.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

37.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

38.

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

Key, Ellen

39.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

41.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

42.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

43.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

44.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

47.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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