Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Eucharista Ward

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Hitopadesa

12.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

13.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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

18.

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

Elizabeth I

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

23.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

24.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

28.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

29.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

30.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

31.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

32.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

37.

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

38.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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

43.

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

44.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

46.

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

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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.