Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bible

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Mignon McLaughlin

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Graham, James

13.

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

14.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

15.

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

Eucharista Ward

16.

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

Kinison, Sam

17.

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

Bush, Barbara

18.

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

19.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Chopin, Daniel

23.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

24.

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

25.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

Alexander, Shana

29.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

30.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

31.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

32.

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

33.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

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

Heine, Heinrich

35.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

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

Wilder, Thornton

37.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

38.

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

Duncan, Isadora

39.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

40.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

41.

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