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

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

Allen, Woody

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

West, Mae

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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

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

24.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

25.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

26.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Clarke, W. A.

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

39.

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

40.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

42.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis