Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Smalley, Gary

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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

11.

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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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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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.

18.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

19.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

20.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

23.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

25.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

28.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

29.

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

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.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

32.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

37.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

39.

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

Ford, Richard

40.

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

Irving, Washington

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Mae West

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.