Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Myers, Cecil

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Key, Ellen

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Halen

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

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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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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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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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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Byron, Lord

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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