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

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Prior, Matthew

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

11.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

12.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

13.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

14.

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

Irving, Washington

15.

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

16.

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

Lawana Blackwell

17.

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

18.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

19.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

20.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

22.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

23.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

24.

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

25.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

31.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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

33.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

34.

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

35.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

40.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

41.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

42.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

43.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

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

Pearl Buck

45.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

46.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

47.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.