Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Diller, Phyllis

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Andre Maurois

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

Graham, James

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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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Key, Ellen

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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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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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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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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas