Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Jong, Erica

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Clarke, W. A.

12.

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

13.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

15.

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

17.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

18.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Balzac, Honore De

22.

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

Sunday, Billy

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Miller, Harlan

26.

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

27.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

28.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

29.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

30.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

31.

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

32.

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

33.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

35.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

36.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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

39.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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

45.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

49.

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

Kinison, Sam

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin