Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

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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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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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

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Peter Blake

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

Ford, Richard

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

18.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Moliere

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Baskins

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

31.

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

Graham, James

32.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

39.

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 was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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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.