Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

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

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

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

Rudner, Rita

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Hitopadesa

11.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Andre Maurois

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Baum, Vicki

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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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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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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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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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

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

36.

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 man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.