Motivational Quotes

Marriage

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bible

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Farquhar, George

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

Clarke, W. A.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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.

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

Balzac, Honore De

10.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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

12.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

14.

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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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

16.

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

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

Baum, Vicki

19.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

21.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Murray, Joe

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

Proverb

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Irving, Washington

28.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

30.

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

31.

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

Andre Maurois

32.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

33.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

34.

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

Graham, James

35.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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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

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Young, Brigham

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

William Shakespeare

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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