Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

10.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

11.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

12.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

13.

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

14.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

15.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

16.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

17.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

18.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

19.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

23.

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

Heine, Heinrich

24.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

26.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

29.

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

Pancoast, Mal

30.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

32.

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

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

35.

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

Hitopadesa

36.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

40.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

42.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

43.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

44.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.