Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Andre Maurois

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

10.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

17.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

18.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

19.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

23.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

24.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

26.

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

Rieux, Madame De

27.

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

Victoria, Queen

28.

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

Hull, Raymond

29.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

30.

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

31.

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

Duncan, Isadora

32.

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

33.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

34.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

35.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

38.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

39.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

40.

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

Winters, Shelley

41.

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

Smalley, Gary

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

West, Mae

44.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

47.

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

Baskins

48.

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

49.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

50.

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