Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sondheim, Stephen

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Congreve, William

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Kathleen Norris

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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

11.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

12.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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

18.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Myers, Cecil

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Wycherley, William

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

Proverb

27.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

28.

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

Hitopadesa

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Peter Blake

33.

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

West, Mae

34.

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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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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.

Ann Landers

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa