Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Murray, Joe

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

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

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

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

Bush, Barbara

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Harrison, Jane

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

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Coward, Noel

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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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.

Landers, Ann

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

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, German

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Peter Blake

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

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

41.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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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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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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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bruyere, Jean De La