Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Sunday, Billy

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

10.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Nick Faldo

14.

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

15.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

16.

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

Penn, William

17.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

18.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

19.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

20.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

22.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

23.

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

24.

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

25.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

26.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

27.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

28.

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

29.

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

Winters, Shelley

30.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

31.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Proverb, Scottish

34.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

36.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

37.

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

Updike, John

38.

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

Clarke, W. A.

39.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

40.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

41.

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

42.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

43.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

44.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

45.

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

46.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French