Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Hitopadesa

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Vass, Susan

10.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

11.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

12.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

13.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

14.

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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

18.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

19.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

20.

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

21.

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

West, Mae

22.

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

Bible

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

26.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Updike, John

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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

29.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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.

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.