Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Bible

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

10.

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

Vries, Peter De

11.

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

Wycherley, William

12.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

13.

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

Myers, Cecil

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

William Shakespeare

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

20.

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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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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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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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Luther, Martin

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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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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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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

39.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

40.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

42.

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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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.