Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Bible

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Skelton, Red

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

Myers, Cecil

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Rita Rudner

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Nick Faldo

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

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Sunday, Billy

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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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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

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Hitopadesa

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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.

43.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

Maurois, Andre

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael