Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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.

- Ann Landers

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Smalley, Gary

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

10.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

11.

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

Vries, Peter De

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

14.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Lennon, John

20.

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

Byron, Lord

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Victoria, Queen

25.

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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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

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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

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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

29.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

30.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

31.

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

Allen, Woody

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

37.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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.

46.

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

Kauffman, Max

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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