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

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

Novalis

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

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Hitopadesa

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

William Shakespeare

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

10.

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

11.

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

Bundy, Peg

12.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

13.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

14.

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

15.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

16.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

19.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

21.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

23.

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

Pancoast, Mal

24.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

25.

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

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

28.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Clarke, W. A.

32.

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

Myers, Cecil

33.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

34.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

35.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

36.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

43.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

44.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

45.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Halen

48.

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

Mencken, H. L.

49.

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

Billings, Josh

50.

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