Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Andre Maurois

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

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Elizabeth I

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Balzac, Honore De

17.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

18.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Halen

21.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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 difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

25.

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

Smalley, Gary

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

27.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

30.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

31.

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

32.

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

Jong, Erica

33.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Bundy, Peg

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Alexander, Shana

45.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

46.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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