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

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Andre Maurois

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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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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Myers, Cecil

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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

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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

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

Helen Rowland

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

28.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

30.

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

Winters, Shelley

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Key, Ellen

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

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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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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

38.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

39.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

40.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

41.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

42.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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 one long conversation, checkered by disputes.