Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Landers, Ann

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

15.

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

Halen

16.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

17.

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

Victoria, Queen

18.

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

19.

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

Rita Rudner

20.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

21.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

22.

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

Duncan, Isadora

23.

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

24.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

25.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

28.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

31.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

32.

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

33.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

34.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

35.

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

Proverb, Scottish

36.

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

37.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

38.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

39.

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

40.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

42.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

43.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

44.

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

45.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

46.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.