Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Marriage

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Luther, Martin

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

10.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

14.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

15.

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

Thomason, Pauline

16.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

17.

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

Rieux, Madame De

18.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

19.

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

20.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

21.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

22.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

23.

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

24.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Murray, Joe

27.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

29.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

30.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

31.

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

Will Rogers

32.

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

33.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

34.

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

Heine, Heinrich

35.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

36.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

37.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

39.

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

40.

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

41.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

Maurois, Andre

43.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

44.

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

Sunday, Billy

45.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

46.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

47.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

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

Marx, Groucho

49.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

50.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest