Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ford, Richard

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dave Meurer

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

Victoria, Queen

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Helen Rowland

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

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

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Hitopadesa

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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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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

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

24.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Lennon, John

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

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

Halen

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.