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]

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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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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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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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

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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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Key, Ellen

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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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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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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Myers, Cecil

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Ruckett

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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