Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Chatterton, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Updike, John

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

Bible

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

12.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Myers, Cecil

14.

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

Kinison, Sam

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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

18.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

20.

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

21.

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

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Eliot, George

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

34.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Andre Maurois

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

Halen

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chopin, Daniel

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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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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Fuller, Thomas