Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

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

Dave Meurer

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

13.

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

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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

18.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

19.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

20.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

Ford, Richard

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

26.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

27.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Lennon, John

29.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

30.

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

Chopin, Daniel

31.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

32.

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

Moliere

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

35.

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

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Irving, Washington

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

50.

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

Proverb