Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Andre Maurois

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

10.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

11.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

13.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

15.

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

Duncan, Isadora

16.

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

Lawana Blackwell

17.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Baum, Vicki

20.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

21.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

West, Mae

24.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

25.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Chopin, Daniel

30.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

31.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Proverb, Scottish

33.

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

34.

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

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 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

37.

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

Maurois, Andre

38.

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

Heine, Heinrich

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Ruckett

42.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

43.

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

44.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

47.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

48.

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

49.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael