Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

- Elizabeth I

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Bible

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Andre Maurois

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

10.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

12.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

13.

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

Wilder, Thornton

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Chopin, Daniel

17.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

18.

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

19.

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

Hesiod

20.

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

Murray, Joe

21.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

22.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

Marx, Groucho

26.

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

West, Mae

27.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

30.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

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

32.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

33.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

34.

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

35.

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

36.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

37.

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

38.

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

39.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

40.

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

41.

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

Hitopadesa

42.

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

Halen

43.

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