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

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Elizabeth I

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

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

13.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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

15.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

17.

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

Rita Rudner

18.

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

Mickey Rooney

19.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

20.

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

21.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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

24.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

25.

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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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

27.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

28.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

29.

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

Ruckett

30.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

31.

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

32.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

33.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

36.

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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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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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

42.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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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

45.

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

46.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

49.

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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic