Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Smalley, Gary

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Rooney, Mickey

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

Pearl Buck

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Lennon, John

21.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Dupuy, Alexis

23.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

24.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Kauffman, Max

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

28.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

32.

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

Hull, Raymond

33.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Harrison, Jane

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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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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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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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

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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 is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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