Motivational Quotes

Marriage

All marriages are mixed marriages.

- Chantal Saperstein

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Novalis

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

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

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Thomason, Pauline

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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

13.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Cosby, Bill

17.

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

18.

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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

20.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

21.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

22.

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

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

Eucharista Ward

24.

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

Balzac, Honore De

25.

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

Heine, Heinrich

26.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

27.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

29.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

30.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

32.

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

33.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

34.

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

Sunday, Billy

35.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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

46.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

Kauffman, Max

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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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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

50.

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