Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sunday, Billy

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Proverb

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

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

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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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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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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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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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Samuel, Herbert

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

William Shakespeare

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

39.

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

Pearl Buck

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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

43.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Congreve, William

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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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 more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley