Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

- Mcgannon, Donald H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Knowles, F. M.

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Coward, Noel

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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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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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

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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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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

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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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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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

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin