Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Bundy, Peg

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.

Landers, Ann

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.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Luther, Martin

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

Marx, Groucho

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

14.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

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

16.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

West, Mae

20.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

21.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

22.

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

23.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

24.

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

Irving, Washington

25.

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

26.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

27.

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

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

30.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

31.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

32.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

33.

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

Vries, Peter De

34.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

37.

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.

38.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

39.

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

40.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

41.

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

42.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

43.

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

Thomason, Pauline

44.

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

45.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

48.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

49.

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

Nick Faldo

50.

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