Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Bible

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

10.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

12.

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

13.

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

Bennett, Jill

14.

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

Kauffman, Max

15.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Nick Faldo

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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.

18.

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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

24.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

26.

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

Graham, James

27.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

28.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

33.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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.

Updike, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

41.

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

42.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

44.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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

48.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Helen Rowland