Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

- Samuel, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Helen Rowland

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

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

12.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

13.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

14.

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

Bush, Barbara

15.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

16.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

17.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

18.

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

19.

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

Graham, James

20.

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

21.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Duncan, Isadora

25.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

27.

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

28.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

Marx, Groucho

31.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

33.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

34.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

35.

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

36.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

37.

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

Prior, Matthew

38.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

39.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

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

41.

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

Heine, Heinrich

42.

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

Lawana Blackwell

43.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

44.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

45.

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

Bennett, Jill

46.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

47.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

48.

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

Novalis

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.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh