Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Bible

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kauffman, Max

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

10.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

11.

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

Byron, Lord

12.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

18.

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

Myers, Cecil

19.

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

Proverb, Scottish

20.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

24.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Elizabeth I

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

Byron, Lord

30.

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

31.

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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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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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

36.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

37.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

38.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hull, Raymond

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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