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

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Farquhar, George

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

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Proverb, German

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

11.

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

12.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

14.

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

Rooney, Mickey

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

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

Helen Rowland

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

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

Hull, Raymond

21.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

22.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

23.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

24.

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

Irving, Washington

25.

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

Rowland, Helen

26.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

27.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

28.

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

Bush, Barbara

29.

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

Pearl Buck

30.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

31.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

32.

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

33.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

34.

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

Coward, Noel

35.

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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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

37.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

38.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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 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

41.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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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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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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

45.

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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Peter Blake

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis