Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Anspacher, Louis K.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Shakespeare

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Andre Maurois

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

12.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

13.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

14.

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

Chopin, Daniel

15.

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

Rudner, Rita

16.

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

Lawana Blackwell

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb

19.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

20.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

21.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

22.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

23.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

25.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

26.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

27.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

28.

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

Pearl Buck

29.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

30.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

31.

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

32.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

33.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

34.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

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

Vass, Susan

38.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

39.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

40.

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

41.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

42.

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

Skelton, Red

43.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

44.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

45.

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

46.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

47.

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

Hitopadesa

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De