Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Marriage

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Sunday, Billy

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Luther, Martin

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

13.

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

14.

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

15.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

16.

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

17.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

18.

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

19.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

20.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

21.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

22.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

25.

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

Young, Brigham

26.

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

27.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Lawana Blackwell

31.

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

32.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

34.

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

35.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

36.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Lennon, John

41.

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

Novalis

42.

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

43.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

44.

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.

45.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

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

47.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

48.

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

Victoria, Queen

49.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

50.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.