Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Eucharista Ward

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Hull, Raymond

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

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Mead, Margaret

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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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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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Wilder, Thornton

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Scottish

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

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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

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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill