Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Halen

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

10.

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

Hesiod

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

13.

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

Proverb

14.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

15.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

19.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

20.

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

21.

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

Murray, Joe

22.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

23.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

24.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

25.

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

26.

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

28.

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

Sunday, Billy

29.

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

30.

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

31.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

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

33.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

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

Spencer, Herbert

35.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

38.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

39.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

40.

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

West, Mae

41.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

42.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

45.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

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

Marx, Groucho

47.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

48.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

49.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.