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

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

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Peter Blake

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

12.

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

13.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

17.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

21.

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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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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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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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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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

30.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

31.

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

33.

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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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

43.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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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