Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

10.

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

Halen

11.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

12.

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

Marx, Groucho

13.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

17.

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

18.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

19.

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

20.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

21.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

22.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

23.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

24.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

25.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

27.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

28.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

29.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

Bible

32.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

Proverb

34.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

35.

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

36.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

37.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

38.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

40.

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

41.

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

Rowland, Helen

42.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

43.

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

44.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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I married beneath me. All women do.