Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

2.

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

3.

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

Halen

4.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

5.

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

Luther, Martin

6.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

7.

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

Victoria, Queen

8.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

9.

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

Hesiod

10.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

13.

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

14.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

15.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

16.

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

Rooney, Mickey

17.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Smalley, Gary

23.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

29.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

Harrison, Jane

33.

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

34.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

35.

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

Proverb, Scottish

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

38.

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

39.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

41.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

42.

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.

43.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

44.

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

45.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

47.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

48.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.