Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Samuel, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Myers, Cecil

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

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

Hitopadesa

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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Eliot, George

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

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Murray, Joe

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

34.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

36.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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