Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Alexander, Shana

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Halen

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

10.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

11.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Chopin, Daniel

14.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

Diller, Phyllis

16.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

17.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

18.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

19.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

20.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

21.

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

Irving, Washington

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

29.

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

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Will Rogers

34.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

35.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

36.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

37.

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

38.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

39.

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

40.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

41.

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

42.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

43.

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

44.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

45.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

46.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

47.

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

48.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

50.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles