Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Prior, Matthew

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Novalis

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

10.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

11.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

14.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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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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.

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

18.

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

Skelton, Red

19.

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

20.

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

Smalley, Gary

21.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

22.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

23.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

24.

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

Bush, Barbara

25.

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

Vries, Peter De

26.

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

Bible

27.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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

29.

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

30.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

31.

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

32.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

38.

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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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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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

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

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