Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Kauffman, Max

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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.

Landers, Ann

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Clarke, W. A.

15.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Key, Ellen

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

Sunday, Billy

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Rowland, Helen

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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

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

Rita Rudner

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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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

28.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Myers, Cecil

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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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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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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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Victoria, Queen

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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