Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Marriage

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Hitopadesa

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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

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

Bible

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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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

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Proverb

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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

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

Baum, Vicki

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Samuel, Herbert

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Bierce, Ambrose