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 operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

12.

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

13.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

14.

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

West, Mae

15.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

16.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

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

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

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

Skelton, Red

20.

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

21.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

22.

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

Baskins

23.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

28.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

29.

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

30.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

31.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

32.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

33.

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

Barrymore, John

34.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

35.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

36.

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

Victoria, Queen

37.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

38.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

39.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

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

41.

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

Young, Brigham

42.

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

Andre Maurois

43.

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

Moliere

44.

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

Cosby, Bill

45.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

46.

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

47.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

50.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita