Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Marx, Groucho

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

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

10.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

11.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

13.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

14.

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

Murray, Joe

15.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

16.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

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

Harrison, Jane

23.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

24.

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

26.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

Hitopadesa

28.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

29.

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

Miller, Harlan

30.

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.

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

33.

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

34.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

35.

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

Kauffman, Max

36.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

38.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Dave Meurer

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Nick Faldo

44.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

45.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

46.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

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

49.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

50.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard