Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Luther, Martin

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

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Scottish

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Hull, Raymond

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

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

Nick Faldo

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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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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dave Meurer

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

41.

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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Proverb

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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

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew