Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

West, Mae

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

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

Helen Rowland

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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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

18.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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

23.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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 resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Ford, Richard

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

Elizabeth I

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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

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Sunday, Billy

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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

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

Myers, Cecil

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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