Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Kauffman, Max

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Chopin, Daniel

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

10.

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

11.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

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.

Landers, Ann

13.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

14.

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

Irving, Washington

15.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

16.

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

17.

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

Jong, Erica

18.

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

Young, Brigham

19.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

24.

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

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Updike, John

29.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

30.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

31.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

32.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

35.

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

Clarke, W. A.

36.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Farquhar, George

38.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

39.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Proverb

41.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

42.

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

Mae West

43.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

44.

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

45.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

46.

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

Hitopadesa

47.

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

48.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

49.

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

Maurois, Andre

50.

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

Victoria, Queen