Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Murray, Joe

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

Balzac, Honore De

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

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

Eliot, George

15.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

17.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

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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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

21.

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

Updike, John

23.

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

24.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

27.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

West, Mae

29.

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

30.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

36.

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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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

38.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Ford, Richard

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

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bush, Barbara

49.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy