Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Marriage

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Young, Brigham

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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 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

10.

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

11.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

12.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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

Bundy, Peg

15.

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

16.

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

Thomason, Pauline

17.

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

18.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

21.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

22.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Duncan, Isadora

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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 problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

28.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Victoria, Queen

30.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

31.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

32.

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

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

34.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

35.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

36.

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.

37.

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

Eucharista Ward

38.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

39.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

40.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

42.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

43.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

44.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

45.

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

Penn, William

46.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

47.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

48.

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

Smalley, Gary

49.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

50.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis