Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Prior, Matthew

Best Quotes about Marriage

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Graham, James

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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

Farquhar, George

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

Baskins

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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mead, Margaret

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin