Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

12.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

13.

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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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

18.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Hull, Raymond

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Victoria, Queen

29.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Farquhar, George

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

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

William Shakespeare

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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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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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