Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Rowland, Helen

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Proverb

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb

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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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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Helen Rowland

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Sunday, Billy

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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 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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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