Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Elizabeth I

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Mae West

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

Bible

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Miller, Harlan

11.

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

Andre Maurois

12.

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

Bundy, Peg

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

William Shakespeare

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

25.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Bennett, Jill

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

31.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

32.

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

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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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.

43.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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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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

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma