Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dobson, Dr. James C.

Best Quotes about Marriage

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Chatterton, Thomas

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Kauffman, Max

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Key, Ellen

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

Nick Faldo

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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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Hesiod

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Clarke, W. A.