Motivational Quotes

Marriage

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Mae West

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

22.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Wycherley, William

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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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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Novalis

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

32.

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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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

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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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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

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