Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Congreve, William

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

10.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Mickey Rooney

13.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

14.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

15.

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

Hitopadesa

16.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

17.

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

18.

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

Landers, Ann

19.

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

Nick Faldo

20.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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

22.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

23.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

24.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Prior, Matthew

27.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

28.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

29.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

30.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

31.

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

Eliot, George

32.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

34.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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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

39.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

40.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

42.

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

43.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

Victoria, Queen

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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

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

William Shakespeare

49.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

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