Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Marriage

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

Vass, Susan

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

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Chopin, Daniel

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Halen

12.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Eucharista Ward

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

24.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Updike, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Eliot, George

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

Key, Ellen

32.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

33.

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

Dave Meurer

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

Farquhar, George

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ford, Richard

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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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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

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Proverb, German

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.