Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I married beneath me. All women do.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Allen, Woody

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

10.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

11.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

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

Marx, Groucho

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

23.

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

Andre Maurois

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

Chatterton, Thomas

25.

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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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Mead, Margaret

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Scottish

33.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

Luther, Martin

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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.

Landers, Ann

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

Updike, John

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Farquhar, George

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

Graham, James

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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.