Inspirational Quotes on Marriage

“Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward.”

“She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.”

“They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.”

“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”

“In marriage there are three rings - the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffer-ring.”

“A husband is one who stands by you in troubles you wouldn't have had if you hadn't married him.”

“Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.”

“Making marriage work is like running a farm. You have to start all over again each morning.”

“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.”

“Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.”

“If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.”

“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”

“Many tradesmen export their best commodities-the Christian should not. He should have all his conversation everywhere of the best savour; but let him have a care to put forth the sweetest fruit of spiritual life and testimony in his own family.”

“For nothing is better than this more steadfast than when two people, a man and his wife, keep a harmonious household; a thing that brings much distress to the people who hate them and pleasure to their will-wishers, and for them the best reputation.”

“Love and marriage are of the Father's most powerful means for the making of his foolish little ones into sons and daughters. But so unlike in many cases are the immediate consequences to those desired and expected, that it is hard for not a few to believe that he is anywhere looking after their fate--caring about them at all. And the doubt would be a reasonable one, if the end of things was marriage. But the end is life--that we become the children of God; after which, all things can and will go their grand, natural course; the heart of the Father will be content for his children, and the hearts of the children will be content in their Father.”

“I must show the blacksmith and the shopkeeper once more--two years after marriage--time long enough to have made common people as common to each other as the weed by the roadside; but these are not common to each other yet, and never will be. They will never complain of being _desillusionnes_, for they have never been illuded. They look up each to the other still, because they were right in looking up each to the other from the first. Each was, and therefore each is and will be, real.”

“If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed.”

“What is more likely to lead to true marital satisfaction-getting a fallen spouse to change his or her ways, or changing your own focus so that you draw affirmation from a God who never disappoints, never turns you away?”

“I am dedicated to the preservation of my marriage's unity.”

“Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation.”