Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Mignon McLaughlin

18.

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

Elizabeth I

19.

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

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

31.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Jong, Erica

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Mae West

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Rudner, Rita

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

Farquhar, George

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

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

49.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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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