Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Helen Rowland

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, German

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

Irving, Washington

10.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

11.

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

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Baskins

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Hull, Raymond

16.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

17.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

22.

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

23.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

26.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

27.

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

Skelton, Red

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

32.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

33.

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

35.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

37.

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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

40.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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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

42.

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

Halen

43.

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

Hitopadesa

44.

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

Baum, Vicki

45.

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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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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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh