Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

- Andre Maurois

Best Quotes about Marriage

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Pancoast, Mal

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

Rita Rudner

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

11.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

12.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

West, Mae

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Graham, James

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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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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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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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Allen, Woody

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Young, Brigham

33.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

34.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Farquhar, George

41.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

42.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

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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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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Moliere

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

Kauffman, Max