Motivational Quotes

Marriage

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Graham, James

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Farquhar, George

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

10.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

11.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

12.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

14.

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

Murray, Joe

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

18.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

20.

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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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

22.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

23.

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

Andre Maurois

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Ford, Richard

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

28.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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

31.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

33.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

Proverb

36.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

38.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

43.

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

Sunday, Billy

44.

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

Kinison, Sam

45.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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

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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

49.

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

50.

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