Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Marriage

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Kauffman, Max

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.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Hull, Raymond

11.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

13.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

20.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

21.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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 souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Hitopadesa

30.

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

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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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

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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

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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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

39.

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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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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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

46.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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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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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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