Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

- Rudner, Rita

Best Quotes about Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

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

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

Miller, Harlan

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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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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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

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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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Maurois, Andre

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Hull, Raymond

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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Samuel, Herbert

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary