Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Marriage

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Young, Brigham

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Jong, Erica

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Bundy, Peg

11.

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

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

William Shakespeare

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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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

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

West, Mae

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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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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

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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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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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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 first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish