Motivational Quotes

Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Key, Ellen

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

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

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Proverb

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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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

Vries, Peter De

11.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Farquhar, George

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Skelton, Red

20.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

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

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

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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

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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 value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

44.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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.

Landers, Ann