Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Pancoast, Mal

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Kinison, Sam

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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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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

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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

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Will Rogers

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

Kathleen Norris

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Halen

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Maurois, Andre

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Sunday, Billy

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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

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

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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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.