Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Samuel, Herbert

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Maurois, Andre

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Dave Meurer

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

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

10.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

11.

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

12.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

13.

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

Hitopadesa

14.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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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

20.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Proverb, Scottish

23.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

29.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

30.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

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

Myers, Cecil

32.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

33.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

34.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Farquhar, George

40.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

Mignon McLaughlin

45.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer