Motivational Quotes

Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

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

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

10.

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

Baskins

11.

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

Bible

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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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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

14.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Eliot, George

16.

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

17.

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

Connolly, Cyril

18.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

19.

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

Rieux, Madame De

20.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

21.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

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

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Baum, Vicki

25.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rooney, Mickey

31.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

32.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

33.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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.

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Vries, Peter De

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

45.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

50.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie