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

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hitopadesa

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

Hull, Raymond

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

Myers, Cecil

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

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb

10.

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

Maurois, Andre

11.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

16.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

18.

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

19.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

20.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Vries, Peter De

23.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

24.

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

Elizabeth I

25.

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

26.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Baskins

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

32.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

33.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

34.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

35.

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

Luther, Martin

36.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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

38.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

39.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

41.

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

Smalley, Gary

42.

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

Andre Maurois

43.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

44.

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

Jong, Erica

45.

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

Winters, Shelley

46.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

47.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

49.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb