Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

- Knowles, F. M.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

11.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mae West

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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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

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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

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

Vass, Susan

30.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Smalley, Gary

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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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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

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.