Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomason, Pauline

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Victoria, Queen

10.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

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

14.

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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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Kinison, Sam

17.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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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

19.

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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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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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

24.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

25.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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

28.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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

30.

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

Penn, William

31.

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

32.

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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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

34.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Andre Maurois

36.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Winters, Shelley

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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

46.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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