Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Eucharista Ward

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Congreve, William

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Thomason, Pauline

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

33.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Nick Faldo

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

39.

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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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

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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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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Skelton, Red

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril