Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Mencken, H. L.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

Coward, Noel

11.

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

12.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

13.

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

Farquhar, George

14.

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

15.

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

Vries, Peter De

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

19.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

20.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

22.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

28.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

29.

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

Pancoast, Mal

30.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Sunday, Billy

32.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

33.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

34.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

35.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

36.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

37.

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

38.

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

Chopin, Daniel

39.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

Heine, Heinrich

41.

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

Smalley, Gary

42.

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

Alexander, Shana

43.

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

Rowland, Helen

44.

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

45.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

46.

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

47.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

48.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

50.

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

Novalis