Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

10.

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

Myers, Cecil

11.

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

12.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Bennett, Jill

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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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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

18.

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

Chopin, Daniel

19.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

20.

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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Ford, Richard

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Andre Maurois

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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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

33.

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

Maurois, Andre

35.

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

39.

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

40.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Key, Ellen

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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 so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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

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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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