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

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

Maurois, Andre

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, German

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hitopadesa

10.

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

11.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

12.

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

Clarke, W. A.

13.

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

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

17.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

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

Ford, Richard

22.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

23.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

24.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

25.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

29.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

30.

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

Proverb

31.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

32.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

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

34.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

38.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

39.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

42.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

43.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

44.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Vass, Susan

47.

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

48.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

49.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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.

Ann Landers