Top 100 Marriage Husband Wife Quotes
#1. You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.
Elizabeth George
#2. The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
William Shakespeare
#3. The terms 'Husband' and 'Wife' are inappropriate. They are only companions ad partners. One does not slave for other. They both have equal status.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#4. In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Gerald Brenan
#5. My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.
Loretta Chase
#6. All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith
#7. I want you with me, my dearest. Not just as a friend, though also as that. I want you as my wife. I want to know that we share our lives and cares, we share our health and ill, and we share our happiness and sorrow.
Aleksandra Layland
#8. Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
Timothy Keller
#9. As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you must have substantial agreement in your faith.
Billy Graham
#10. If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#11. Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.
Elizabeth George
#12. Our tendency today is to assume that we can eliminate the authority of husband over wife and yet retain the authority of husband-wife over the children. The Bible is more realistic about marriage than modern man, for the truth is that in disobeying the one hierarchy we destroy the other.
Charles F. Stanley
#13. A man is biologically incapable of giving 'the look'.
Fennel Hudson
#14. I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love.
Catherine Lacey
#15. God's purpose for marriage is for a husband and wife to experience a love relationship, where they passionately pursue each other daily, where the ups and downs draw them closer together, a place where true intimacy thrives.
Jennifer Smith
#16. A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Milton Berle
#17. I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
Vera Brittain
#18. Hopefully, your marriage will bring added dimensions to love. Hopefully, your unique love will bring new meaning to all our lives. That success cannot be hidden. Good improves love. Evil poisons love. Nothing proves this more dramatically than how we treat our loved ones.
pg 63
Michael Ben Zehabe
#19. Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.
Malcolm Gladwell
#20. Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
Aristotle.
#21. In marriage, God rarely starts with the issues on the table. He starts with the ones in our hearts
Ngina Otiende
#22. When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict.
Billy Graham
#23. A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold.
James E. Faust
#24. Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you - as husband and wife - commit to keep growing spiritually.
Elizabeth George
#26. A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#27. 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
#28. You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife.
Carew Papritz
#29. 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
#30. A marriage with Christ at the center of it pulls you right out of yourself. It teaches each partner, the husband and the wife, to forget about self for a while in care and sacrifice for the other. We come to ourselves by losing ourselves.
J. Budziszewski
#31. A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#32. We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.
Julia Child
#33. Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.
M.F. Moonzajer
#35. God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.
Jim George
#36. There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.
Amanda Craig
#37. You are not by any manner of means the sort of woman I am in search of as a wife, and I am in a totally different universe from the husband you hope to find. But I feel a powerful urge to kiss you, for all that.
Mary Balogh
#38. If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.
Andrew Solomon
#39. Do You Believe
... on this road of life
on this day
I take you
now husband and wife ...
Muse
#40. You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#41. What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
Mignon McLaughlin
#42. 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
#44. On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
Oscar Wilde
#45. If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.
Richard Bach
#46. The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.
Franz Grillparzer
#47. Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.
Joseph Addison
#48. Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
H.L. Mencken
#49. Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.
Elizabeth George
#50. Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.
Elizabeth Bowen
#51. Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#52. At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature.
Maggie Gallagher
#53. 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
#54. Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.
Erica Jong
#55. Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.
Jim George
#56. A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage.
Honore De Balzac
#57. Don't treat your husband the way he deserves, but as Christ expects.
Ngina Otiende
#58. Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!
Margaret Way
#59. In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
Lucretia Mott
#60. A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything.
Habeeb Akande
#61. The power a wife is not to prove her husband but to improve him.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#63. The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
Alfred Hitchcock
#65. It is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life.
Victor L. Brown
#66. It is inevitable that being unaware of the purpose for it is inevitable that being unaware of the purpose for your life, you will not be able to recover from being abandoned by your wife or husband
Sunday Adelaja
#67. Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man's access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man's access to) their kids.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#68. Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#69. Most of a husband's life is spent in doing research on his wife.
Pawan Mishra
#70. You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things
useful things.
Deanna Raybourn
#71. When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#72. Communication is not a one-way street.
Jim George
#73. A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.
Swami Vivekananda
#74. In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.
Brendan Behan
#76. No matter how old you are or how long
or short!
you've been married, the day you accelerate your growth in the Lord is the day your marriage is positively impacted, improved, and strengthened!
Jim George
#78. A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is called a W.I.F.E because she is a Woman In Full Effect.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#79. There are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.
Lanier Ivester
#80. Marriage is sacred intimacy. The husband must love, feed and care for the family. The wife must love, respect and submit to the husband.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#81. That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."
Francis George
#82. A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.
Pawan Mishra
#83. After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Hemant Joshi
#84. That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
Plautus
#85. Don't let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose.
Elizabeth George
#86. Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
Adam Hamilton
#87. In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.
John O'Hara
#88. Relationship ties
heart of two souls
eager to fly freely
soaring to sky feats
in full-fledged wings
unrestrained passions
to a realm in which
both remain invisible.
Rajesh Nanoo
#89. Problem does not lie in being a husband; the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).
Dada Bhagwan
#90. A marriage is sensitive, fragile and crucial. Once you mess up with how you handle it, it will shatter
Diyar Harraz
#91. By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.
William Blackstone
#92. As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
Jim George
#93. Marriage is more than finding the right person ... it is being the right person!
Elizabeth George
#94. Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.
Shannon L. Alder
#95. Your commitment to follow God's plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage.
Elizabeth George
#96. Let's just say that our marriage preparation classes would have been far more helpful if they had covered topics such as "What to do when you husband lacks any vision whatsoever" or "How to cope when your wife wants to move the bloody front door".
Shelli NT
#97. It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#98. It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
George Bernard Shaw
#99. First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.
Osho
#100. The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
Lucretia Mott
