Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

- Ibsen, Henrik

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Victoria, Queen

10.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Maurois, Andre

15.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Andre Maurois

17.

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

Penn, William

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

20.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

21.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

22.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

24.

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

25.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

29.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

30.

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

31.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

32.

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

33.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

38.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

39.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Ford, Richard

42.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

43.

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