Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

10.

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

Harrison, Jane

11.

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

Thomason, Pauline

12.

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.

13.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

14.

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

15.

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

Winters, Shelley

16.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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.

Ann Landers

21.

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

22.

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

Heine, Heinrich

23.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

24.

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

Novalis

25.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

26.

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

Duncan, Isadora

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

31.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

32.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

34.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

36.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

37.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

38.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

39.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

40.

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

Vries, Peter De

41.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

42.

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

43.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

44.

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

Ruckett

45.

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

46.

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

Winters, Shelley

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

50.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.