Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Dupuy, Alexis

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

10.

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

Andre Maurois

11.

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

Baskins

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

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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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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.

Landers, Ann

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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

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

Rita Rudner

20.

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

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

22.

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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

26.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

27.

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

Vries, Peter De

29.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

30.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

31.

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 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

33.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

34.

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

Victoria, Queen

35.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Jong, Erica

37.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

38.

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 should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

40.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

42.

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

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Prior, Matthew