Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hesiod

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

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Young, Brigham

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Clarke, W. A.

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.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

11.

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

12.

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

Penn, William

13.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

15.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

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

Proverb, German

17.

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

Proverb

18.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

19.

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

20.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

21.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

22.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

24.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

25.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

26.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

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

Baskins

28.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

29.

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

Hitopadesa

30.

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.

31.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

32.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

33.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

34.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

35.

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

36.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Rita Rudner

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

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

Peter Blake

46.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

47.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.