Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Nick Faldo

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

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

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

11.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

12.

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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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

15.

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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Wycherley, William

20.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

21.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

23.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

24.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

25.

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

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

27.

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

28.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

29.

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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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 marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Ann Landers

40.

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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

42.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Kauffman, Max

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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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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

48.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston