Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Helen Rowland

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

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

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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 is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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

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

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

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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.

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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.

Ann Landers

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

Coward, Noel

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Irving, Washington

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

Nick Faldo

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner