Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Murray, Joe

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

10.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

12.

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

Helen Rowland

13.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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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

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

Miller, Harlan

25.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

26.

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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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

35.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic