Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Marriage

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

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

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

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

Mickey Rooney

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Byron, Lord

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

Andre Maurois

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Halen

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

William Shakespeare

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Rita Rudner

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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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, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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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 miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bible

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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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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William