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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

12.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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 great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

16.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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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.

19.

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

Skelton, Red

20.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

Congreve, William

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

25.

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

26.

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

Myers, Cecil

27.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

28.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

29.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

30.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

31.

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

32.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Marx, Groucho

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

37.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lennon, John

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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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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Halen

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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