Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

- Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Halen

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Eliot, George

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

William Shakespeare

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

19.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Ford, Richard

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bible

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Skelton, Red

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

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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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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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

Kathleen Norris

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline