Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ford, Richard

Best Quotes about Marriage

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Smith, Sydney

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Vass, Susan

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

Mae West

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Prior, Matthew

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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 was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Clarke, W. A.

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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.

Landers, Ann

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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 a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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