Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Andre Maurois

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

Rita Rudner

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

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

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

Proverb

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Mae West

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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Halen

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Farquhar, George

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Moliere

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy