Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ford, Richard

Best Quotes about Marriage

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Proverb

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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

10.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

11.

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

Proverb

12.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Eucharista Ward

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

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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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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Samuel, Herbert

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Cosby, Bill