Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Cosby, Bill

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

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

Irving, Washington

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

Maurois, Andre

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

William Shakespeare

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Farquhar, George

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Murray, Joe

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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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 is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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

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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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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest