Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Myers, Cecil

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Ruckett

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Bennett, Jill

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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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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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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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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

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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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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

William Shakespeare

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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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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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Andre Maurois

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

Hull, Raymond

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