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

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

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

Helen Rowland

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

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

Proverb, German

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Maurois, Andre

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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

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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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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

Key, Ellen

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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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

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

Carson, Johnny

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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.

Landers, Ann

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

Mickey Rooney

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

William Shakespeare

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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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Congreve, William

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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