Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Farquhar, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Halen

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

Smalley, Gary

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

10.

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

Key, Ellen

11.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

12.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Proverb

15.

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

Proverb

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Moliere

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Winters, Shelley

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

30.

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

Nick Faldo

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

40.

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

41.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

42.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

43.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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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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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Ann Landers

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

William Shakespeare

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston