Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

- Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Best Quotes about Marriage

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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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

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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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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

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

45.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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

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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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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

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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh