Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

11.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

12.

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.

13.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Bennett, Jill

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb

17.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

21.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

22.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

23.

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

Andre Maurois

24.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

25.

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

26.

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

27.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

28.

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

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

31.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

32.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

33.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

34.

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

35.

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

Winters, Shelley

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

40.

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

41.

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

Penn, William

42.

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

West, Mae

43.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

45.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

46.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French