Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Kathleen Norris

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

24.

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.

25.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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]

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

Dupuy, Alexis

30.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

31.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Vries, Peter De

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Halen

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Ford, Richard

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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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 difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Proverb, German

45.

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

Mae West

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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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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 is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

49.

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

Kinison, Sam

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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]

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