Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Barrymore, John

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Farquhar, George

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

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

10.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

11.

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

12.

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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

14.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

21.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Skelton, Red

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

27.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

31.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Key, Ellen

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

37.

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

Myers, Cecil

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

43.

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Rowland, Helen

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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