Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Marriage

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Hull, Raymond

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Byron, Lord

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

28.

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

Baskins

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

Bible

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

Victoria, Queen

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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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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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.