Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

- Will Rogers

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Miller, Harlan

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

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

Hitopadesa

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

Carson, Johnny

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

10.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

11.

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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

18.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

28.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

30.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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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 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. 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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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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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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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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 love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Vries, Peter De

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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