Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Will Rogers

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Knowles, F. M.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

10.

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

Coward, Noel

12.

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

Rita Rudner

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

21.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

22.

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

Eucharista Ward

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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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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Myers, Cecil

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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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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Key, Ellen

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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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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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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Maurois, Andre