Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Farquhar, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Farquhar, George

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Mead, Margaret

11.

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

Rita Rudner

12.

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

Halen

13.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

14.

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

Diller, Phyllis

15.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

16.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

18.

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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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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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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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

26.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

27.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

28.

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

29.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dupuy, Alexis

33.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

37.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Chopin, Daniel

41.

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

42.

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

Winters, Shelley

43.

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

Sunday, Billy

44.

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

Bible

45.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

46.

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

47.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

48.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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