Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Helen Rowland

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

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

10.

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

11.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

12.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

13.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

16.

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

Ford, Richard

17.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

18.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

19.

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

20.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

21.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

22.

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

23.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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

Dave Meurer

28.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

29.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

30.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

31.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Murray, Joe

33.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

36.

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

37.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

38.

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

39.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

40.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

41.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

42.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

44.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

45.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Pearl Buck

48.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma