Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

11.

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

Landers, Ann

12.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

14.

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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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

19.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

20.

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

21.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

22.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

24.

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

25.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

26.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

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

Duncan, Isadora

28.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

30.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

32.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

33.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

34.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

38.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

40.

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

Halen

41.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]