Motivational Quotes

Marriage

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

10.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

11.

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

12.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Hull, Raymond

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

20.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

48.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell