Inspirational Quotes on Marriage

“If your wife doesn't treat you as she should, be thankful, you might not like what you deserve.”

“Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage.”

“Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.”

“The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.”

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

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”

“God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture it to us.”

“When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother, mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.”

“God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.”

“The married man is like the bee that fixes his hive, augments the world, benefits the republic, and by a daily diligence, without wronging any, profits all; but he who contemns wedlock, like a wasp, wanders an offence to the world, lives upon spoil and rapine, disturbs peace, steals sweets that are none of his own, and, by robbing the hives of others, meets misery as his due reward.”

“Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.”

“Keep up your conjugal love in constant heat and vigor.”

“The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may love him also for the sweetness of his person; so the soul first loves Christ for salvation but when she is brought to Him and finds what sweetness there is in Him then she loves Him for Himself. ”

“As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.”

“Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married state. Look not therein for contentment greater than God will give, or a creature in this world can receive, namely, to be free from all inconveniences. Marriage is not like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds.”

“All the molestations of marriage are abundantly recompensed with the other comforts which God bestoweth on them who make a wise choice of a wife.”

“For a wife take the daughter of a good mother.”

“The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day new; as if a gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and, if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is by match.”

“Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.”

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