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

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

Novalis

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Luther, Martin

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

Hitopadesa

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

11.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

12.

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

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

West, Mae

15.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

16.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

17.

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

Harrison, Jane

18.

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

Wilder, Thornton

19.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

21.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

22.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

23.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

25.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

26.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

28.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

29.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

30.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

31.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

32.

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

33.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

35.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William