Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

Bundy, Peg

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

10.

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

11.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

12.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

13.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Victoria, Queen

17.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

20.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

21.

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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

26.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

27.

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

Hesiod

28.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

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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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

33.

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

Kauffman, Max

34.

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

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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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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

41.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

42.

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

Prior, Matthew

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Bush, Barbara

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

William Shakespeare

49.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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