Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

- Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

12.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

13.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

14.

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

15.

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

Heine, Heinrich

16.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

17.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

18.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

22.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

25.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

28.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

31.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

37.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

38.

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

Penn, William

39.

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

Sunday, Billy

40.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

41.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

42.

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

Ford, Richard

43.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

44.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

45.

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

46.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

48.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

49.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

50.

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

Congreve, William