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

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Harrison, Jane

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

12.

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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Murray, Joe

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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

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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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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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Bundy, Peg

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

27.

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

Hitopadesa

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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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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

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cosby, Bill

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?