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

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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

Rita Rudner

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

Proverb, German

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

10.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

12.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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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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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

18.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

Eucharista Ward

20.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

21.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Rowland, Helen

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

24.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Irving, Washington

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

34.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

35.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

36.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Bush, Barbara

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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

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Kauffman, Max

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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

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Hitopadesa

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Murray, Joe