Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Cosby, Bill

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

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

11.

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

Ruckett

12.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

13.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

14.

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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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Harrison, Jane

18.

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

Prior, Matthew

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

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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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

29.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

30.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

31.

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

32.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

33.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

35.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

37.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

38.

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.

Bunker, Archie

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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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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

41.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Halen

45.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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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

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

49.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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