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'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

10.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

11.

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

12.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

13.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

14.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

15.

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

Barrymore, John

16.

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

17.

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

Rieux, Madame De

18.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

19.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

20.

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

Rita Rudner

21.

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

Kauffman, Max

22.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

23.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

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

Heine, Heinrich

25.

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

26.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

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

Young, Brigham

30.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

31.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

34.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

37.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

38.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

39.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

40.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

45.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

46.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

47.

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