Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

- Graham, James

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

William Shakespeare

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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

Hull, Raymond

11.

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

Will Rogers

12.

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

13.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

17.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

18.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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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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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

23.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

24.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

25.

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

Wilson, Earl

26.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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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

29.

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

Helen Rowland

30.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

31.

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

Farquhar, George

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

33.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

39.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

42.

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

43.

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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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

45.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

46.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

47.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

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

Hesiod

49.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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