Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Marriage

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

13.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

15.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

16.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

17.

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

Ruckett

18.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

19.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

20.

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

21.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

22.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

23.

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

24.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

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

Vries, Peter De

26.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

27.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Scottish

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

Eucharista Ward

36.

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