Motivational Quotes

Marriage

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

- Peter Blake

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lincoln, Abraham

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

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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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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Bible

15.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

16.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

19.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

23.

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

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

26.

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

Bundy, Peg

27.

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

28.

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

West, Mae

29.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

30.

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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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

33.

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

Wilson, Earl

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

38.

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

Myers, Cecil

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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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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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

46.

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

Nick Faldo

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

Rooney, Mickey

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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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril