Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Eucharista Ward

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Murray, Joe

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Baskins

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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.

Ann Landers

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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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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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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Proverb

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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

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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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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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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Sunday, Billy

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

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De