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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Peter Blake

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Luther, Martin

12.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Eliot, George

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Chopin, Daniel

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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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

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

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

Ford, Richard

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Victoria, Queen

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

West, Mae

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston