Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Ruckett

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.

Ann Landers

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Key, Ellen

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Byron, Lord

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Hesiod

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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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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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