Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Baskins

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

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Sunday, Billy

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

Maurois, Andre

10.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

11.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

12.

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.

13.

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

Maurois, Andre

14.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

15.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

16.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

17.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

18.

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

Eucharista Ward

19.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

20.

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

Thomason, Pauline

21.

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

22.

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

Bennett, Jill

23.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Bible

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

27.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

28.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

30.

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

31.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

32.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

33.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

34.

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

Graham, James

35.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

36.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

37.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

38.

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

Rooney, Mickey

39.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

42.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

44.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

45.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

46.

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

Proverb, Scottish

47.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

48.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

49.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bruyere, Jean De La