Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Nick Faldo

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Hitopadesa

13.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

15.

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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

20.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

21.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

24.

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

25.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Eucharista Ward

27.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

31.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

34.

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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Rowland, Helen

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

39.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

40.

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

Novalis

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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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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hesiod

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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

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

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