Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Clarke, W. A.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Luther, Martin

10.

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

Victoria, Queen

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

15.

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

16.

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

Halen

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

18.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

19.

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

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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

21.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

22.

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

Ford, Richard

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

24.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

26.

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

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

28.

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

Vries, Peter De

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

31.

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

Sunday, Billy

32.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

33.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

34.

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

35.

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

Allen, Woody

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

38.

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

Irving, Washington

39.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

40.

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.

Ann Landers

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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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

44.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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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

46.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

48.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

49.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

William Shakespeare