Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Updike, John

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

10.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

12.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Myers, Cecil

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Prior, Matthew

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Eliot, George

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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

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Graham, James

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Farquhar, George

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

Maurois, Andre

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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