Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Eucharista Ward

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Helen Rowland

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

West, Mae

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

William Shakespeare

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

Kinison, Sam

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

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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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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 tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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

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

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Congreve, William

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

William Shakespeare

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

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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