Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Smalley, Gary

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bush, Barbara

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

11.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

12.

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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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

18.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

19.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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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

32.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

33.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Helen Rowland

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

40.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

Hull, Raymond

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz