Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Hitopadesa

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Billings, Josh

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

11.

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

13.

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

Hull, Raymond

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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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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

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

19.

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

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

22.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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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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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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

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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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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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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Farquhar, George

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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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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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

39.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

43.

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

Bundy, Peg

44.

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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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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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Murray, Joe