Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Farquhar, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hesiod

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

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

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

Sunday, Billy

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

10.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

12.

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

Maurois, Andre

13.

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

Eucharista Ward

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Halen

17.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

20.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

21.

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

22.

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

Winters, Shelley

23.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

24.

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

25.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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 is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nelms, Cynthia

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Scottish

32.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

33.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Dave Meurer

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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

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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

38.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Smalley, Gary

40.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Skelton, Red

43.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

44.

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

Lennon, John

45.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rooney, Mickey

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

48.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl