Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Irving, Washington

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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

Bible

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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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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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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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

20.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

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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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

24.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

25.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

26.

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

27.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

28.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

31.

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

Graham, James

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

33.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Sunday, Billy

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

38.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Peter Blake

42.

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

Baum, Vicki

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Bible

46.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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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.

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Prior, Matthew

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell