Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

10.

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

11.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

12.

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

Duncan, Isadora

13.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

14.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

15.

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

16.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

19.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

20.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

22.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

23.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Coward, Noel

26.

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

Andre Maurois

27.

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

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Myers, Cecil

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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

Nick Faldo

35.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

37.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

38.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Luther, Martin

41.

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

42.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

43.

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

Chopin, Daniel

44.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

45.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

47.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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