Motivational Quotes

Marriage

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

- Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Ruckett

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Luther, Martin

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

12.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

19.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

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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

32.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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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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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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.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Rita Rudner

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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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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

Heine, Heinrich

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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