Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

- Dobson, Dr. James C.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Dave Meurer

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Mae West

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Kauffman, Max

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Chopin, Daniel

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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

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Prior, Matthew

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

Skelton, Red

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

Farquhar, George

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

Maurois, Andre

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

William Shakespeare

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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

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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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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