Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

- Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Halen

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

Graham, James

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

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Byron, Lord

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Proverb, German

10.

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

Cosby, Bill

11.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

15.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

16.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

22.

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

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

31.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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.

33.

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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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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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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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

45.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

William Shakespeare

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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