Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Marriage

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

12.

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

13.

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

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Proverb

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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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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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

21.

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

22.

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

Andre Maurois

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

24.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

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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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

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Scottish

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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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

36.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

37.

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

38.

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

Prior, Matthew

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

40.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

41.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Bundy, Peg

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean