Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Key, Ellen

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Pearl Buck

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

10.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

11.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

14.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

15.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Bennett, Jill

17.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Eliot, George

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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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

30.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

32.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

34.

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

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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

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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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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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

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

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

43.

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

45.

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

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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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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

48.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

49.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

50.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph