Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Marriage

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Allen, Woody

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Bennett, Jill

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

11.

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

Thomason, Pauline

12.

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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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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Halen

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

20.

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

Harrison, Jane

21.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

22.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Proverb

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

27.

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

Skelton, Red

28.

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

29.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

32.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

33.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

34.

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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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Heine, Heinrich

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Prior, Matthew

40.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

41.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

42.

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 miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

48.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.