Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

Nick Faldo

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

Farquhar, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

10.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

11.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

12.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

13.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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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 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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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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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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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.

22.

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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Eucharista Ward

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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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

30.

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.

Landers, Ann

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Chatterton, Thomas

40.

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

Proverb

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

43.

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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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