Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dupuy, Alexis

Best Quotes about Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

10.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

11.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

12.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Vass, Susan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

19.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Jong, Erica

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

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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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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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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

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

32.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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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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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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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

Halen

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Kauffman, Max

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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

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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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.