Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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

11.

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

12.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

15.

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

16.

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

Will Rogers

18.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

19.

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

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

25.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

27.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

28.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Rowland, Helen

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

31.

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

Kauffman, Max

32.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Halen

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

39.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Farquhar, George

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.