Marriage Quotes

We gave the woman for her trouble a generous fee, with which she was highly pleased, and proceeded to put it in the bed under her sleeping husband's head. We laughingly told her not to put it there as he might get it, and it was money she had earned herself. She appreciated the joke, though it was told mostly by gestures, but seemed to have true ideas of the matrimonial relation, and was nothing loath to trust her all with him. page. 116

~ Helen Josephine Sanborn

There is so much more to marriage than who makes the money. Some of the hardest parts don't come with a paycheck.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

Of all the roles she’d played – daughter, student, employee, sister and wife – wife was the smallest and in proportion the most difficult, as though it had run out of steam with its own scale. The word ‘wife’ was too small to accommodate its responsibility.

~ Meghna Pant

Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.

~ Amit Kalantri

Those monumental anniversary celebrations aren’t what ultimately determine the actual direction of our marriage. Rather, it’s the here and now. It’s those daily decisions we make individually and together that influence how our relationship actually fares in the long run

~ Ashleigh Slater

Jeff watched her come, the whole time. He never noticed her mincing, hesitant steps on treacherous heels. He was simply swept up in the ancient ceremony. And discovering, as untold millions of young men had discovered before him, that there is nothing in the world as beautiful as his bride approaching.

~ Eric Flint

I had wanted to get married, but I realized now that I never wanted to be a 'wife.

~ Jill Bialosky

Even God forgives stupidity. So many married people, heaven would be a ghost town otherwise.

~ Yatin Patel

And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck.Yours truly,Earl AdcockP.S. I'm not deaf.

~ Fannie Flagg

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

~ Jim George

When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.

~ Thomas Hardy

In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.

~ Ashlyn Macnamara

The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.

~ Jim George

Why, could the good man not impose his will, control his wife? asked Mrs. Carew, who always made much of masculine authority in her talk with friends but ruled the roost at home.

~ Leonard Tourney

We don’t treat each other very well, I suppose. Even from the start. It was as though we had the seven-year itch the day we met. The day she went into a coma, I heard her telling her friend Shelley that I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house. At weddings we roll our eyes at the burgeoning love around us, the vows that we know will morph into new kinds of promises: I vow not to kiss you when you’re trying to read. I will tolerate you in sickness and ignore you in health. I promise to let you watch that stupid news show about celebrities, since you’re so disenchanted with your own life.Joanie and I were urged by her brother, Barry, to subject ourselves to counseling as a decent couple would. Barry is a man of the couch, a believer in weekly therapy, affirmations, and pulse points. Once he tried to show us exercises he’d been doing in session with his girlfriend. We were instructed to trade reasons, abstract or specific, why we stayed with each other. I started off by saying that Joanie would get drunk and pretend I was someone else and do this neat thing with her tongue. Joanie said tax breaks. Barry cried. Openly. His second wife had recently left him for someone who understood that a man didn’t do volunteer work.

~ Kaui Hart Hemmings

[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.

~ John Chrysostom

What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?'I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?

~ Jamie Mcguire

Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

~ Margaret Way

Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

~ Anne Tyler

My dad, who my mom always refers to as DH for Darling Husband, was protrayed as a 'let's look on the bright side of things' kind of guy, the pillar my everbumbling mother leans on in times of distress.

~ Frances O'roark Dowell

The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.

~ Thornton Wilder

God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.

~ John Eldredge

So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect—only if they happen to be talking about Judaism.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

~ Alain De Botton

Thank you for being you… for sharing your love with me… for inspiring me to accept myself… for helping me see the unique beauty in imperfection… for showing me that love is something you do; something not just to be said, but also to be shown.

~ Steve Maraboli

It was a love that was not a contract but an affection of the soul.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice to your spouse, be honest, be faithful, give alms to the poor, buy some insurance against fire and flood . . . I’m dead serious: The Buddha literally advised married couples to buy property insurance.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology.

~ Abraham Kuyper

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like How sane are we? and Do our lives have meaning? The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.

~ Michael Chabon

The rose, however, made us girls somewhat fainthearted, because it really was something we felt mattered, the white bridal dream with the wedding bouquet and the kiss from the man who was to be ours forever. But then Laura said that the lady who had given it to us had gotten divorced only five years later. And since many of our parents were also divorce, if indeed they had ever been married at all, that dream clearly wasn't worth our time.

~ Janne Teller

Definition of a bridegroom: A man who is amazed at the outcome of what he thought was a harmless little flirtation.

~ Anonymous

After fifteen years of marriage my wife wants us to recommit our vows. As a man I don't understand her need to get married again. We've got our toaster let's move on.

~ Robert G. Lee

We have found that the best way for our marriage to work is to let me make the big decisions and my wife the small ones. With this system I'm noticing there are usually no big ones.

~ Tom Kardashian

Before criticizing your wife's faults remember that they may have prevented her from getting a better husband.

~ Anonymous

When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad.

~ Anonymous

It's not that I'm too particular. It's just that I'm going to wait for Dr. Right.

~ Anonymous

When I married Mr. Right I didn't know his first name was Always.

~ Anne Gilchrist

Love is like the measles. The older you get it the worse the attack.

~ Mary Roberts Rinehart