Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Kathleen Norris

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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

11.

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

Helen Rowland

14.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

15.

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

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

18.

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

Halen

19.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Murray, Joe

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

31.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

32.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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

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

Rowland, Helen

46.

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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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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