Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Murray, Joe

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

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

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

Eliot, George

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Dave Meurer

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

Halen

10.

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

11.

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

Nick Faldo

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

14.

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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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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

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

Lennon, John

18.

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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

29.

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

30.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

31.

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

Congreve, William

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Rooney, Mickey

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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