Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about 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

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Vries, Peter De

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

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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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

11.

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.

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

13.

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

Bennett, Jill

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Mead, Margaret

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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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

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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

30.

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

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

Andre Maurois

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Penn, William

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

47.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin