Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

- Boone, Pat

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kinison, Sam

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

26.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

27.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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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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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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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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Clarke, W. A.

39.

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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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

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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Vries, Peter De

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.