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

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

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

Bundy, Peg

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

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Congreve, William

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Barrymore, John

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

12.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

15.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

16.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

17.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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

Victoria, Queen

19.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

20.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

21.

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

Cosby, Bill

22.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

23.

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

24.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

27.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

30.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

31.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

32.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

33.

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

34.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

35.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

38.

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

39.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

40.

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

41.

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

Young, Brigham

42.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

44.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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.

46.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

47.

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

Rita Rudner

48.

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

49.

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

Rowland, Helen