Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Victoria, Queen

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Moliere

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

Nelms, Cynthia

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

10.

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

Hull, Raymond

11.

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

12.

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

Winters, Shelley

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

15.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

16.

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

17.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

18.

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

Farquhar, George

19.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

20.

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

21.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Skelton, Red

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

26.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

28.

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.

29.

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

Carson, Johnny

30.

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.

31.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

33.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

34.

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

Mae West

35.

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

36.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

Proverb, German

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

45.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

46.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

47.

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

Maurois, Andre

48.

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

49.

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

Chopin, Daniel

50.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden