Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Marriage

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Knowles, F. M.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lennon, John

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

12.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

14.

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

15.

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

Rowland, Helen

16.

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

17.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

18.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

19.

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

Barrymore, John

20.

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

21.

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.

Landers, Ann

22.

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

Duncan, Isadora

23.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

25.

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

26.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

27.

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

28.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Carson, Johnny

32.

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

Wilder, Thornton

33.

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

West, Mae

34.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

35.

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

Mae West

36.

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

37.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

38.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

39.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

40.

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

Baum, Vicki

41.

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

42.

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

Pancoast, Mal

43.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid