Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

- Newman, Nanette

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Ann Landers

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

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

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Victoria, Queen

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

10.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

11.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Thomason, Pauline

15.

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

Myers, Cecil

16.

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

Wilder, Thornton

17.

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

18.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

21.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

22.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

23.

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

Rita Rudner

24.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Key, Ellen

29.

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

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

Moliere

40.

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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Chopin, Daniel

43.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Andre Maurois