Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dave Meurer

Best Quotes about Marriage

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Jong, Erica

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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

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

Eliot, George

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Chopin, Daniel

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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

25.

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

Kinison, Sam

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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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

29.

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.

Ann Landers

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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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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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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

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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

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Hitopadesa

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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

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

Sunday, Billy

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.