Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Clarke, W. A.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Hesiod

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Kauffman, Max

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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

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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

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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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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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

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

Ford, Richard

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

Halen

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Congreve, William

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Cosby, Bill

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Knowles, F. M.

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

43.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.