Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

11.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

12.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

20.

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

Andre Maurois

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Byron, Lord

24.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Mickey Rooney

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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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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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Hitopadesa

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Moliere

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

Sunday, Billy

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas