Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Landers, Ann

10.

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

Proverb

11.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

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

16.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

17.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

18.

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

19.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

20.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

21.

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

22.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

25.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

26.

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

Novalis

27.

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

Thomason, Pauline

28.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Wycherley, William

30.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

31.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

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

Clarke, W. A.

33.

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

Ruckett

34.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

39.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

40.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

41.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

42.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

43.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

44.

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

45.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

46.

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

Young, Brigham

47.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

48.

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