Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

- Ford, Richard

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Luther, Martin

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

14.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

15.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting 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, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

24.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Ruckett

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

27.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

30.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Kathleen Norris

32.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

34.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

35.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Halen

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

43.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette