Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Smalley, Gary

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

10.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

12.

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

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Rooney, Mickey

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

20.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

21.

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

Key, Ellen

22.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

23.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

24.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

25.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

30.

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

Skelton, Red

31.

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

32.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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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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

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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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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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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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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

40.

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

Rita Rudner

41.

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

Peter Blake

42.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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