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

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

Kauffman, Max

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

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

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Grizzard, Lewis

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Halen

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

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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

11.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

12.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Connolly, Cyril

14.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

15.

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

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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

17.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

18.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

19.

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

Alexander, Shana

20.

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

Rieux, Madame De

21.

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

22.

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

Rowland, Helen

23.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

27.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

28.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Pancoast, Mal

30.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

31.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

33.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

34.

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

35.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

41.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

43.

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

Marx, Groucho

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Scottish

47.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

48.

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

49.

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

Barrymore, John

50.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb