Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

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

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

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

11.

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

Luther, Martin

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

West, Mae

14.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

15.

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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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

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

Cosby, Bill

18.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Proverb, Scottish

20.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

22.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

24.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

25.

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

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

27.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

28.

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

29.

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

Andre Maurois

30.

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

Eucharista Ward

31.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Rita Rudner

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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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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

42.

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

Peter Blake

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.