Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Andre Maurois

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

11.

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

Byron, Lord

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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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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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Andre Maurois

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Hesiod

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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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

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

35.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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

Bible

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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.

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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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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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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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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.