Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

Winters, Shelley

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

11.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

15.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

16.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

19.

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

Novalis

21.

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

22.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Hitopadesa

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

25.

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

26.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

27.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Farquhar, George

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Andre Maurois

39.

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

Ford, Richard

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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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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

45.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.