Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

- Bunker, Archie

Best Quotes about Marriage

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

Bible

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Elizabeth I

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Smalley, Gary

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Baskins

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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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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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

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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

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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