Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Samuel, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Alexander, Shana

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Mead, Margaret

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

10.

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

11.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

12.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Mencken, H. L.

15.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

19.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

20.

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

21.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

24.

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

Luther, Martin

25.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

26.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

33.

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

34.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

37.

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

Byron, Lord

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

41.

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

Lawana Blackwell

42.

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

Winters, Shelley

43.

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

44.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.