Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Byron, Lord

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

Baskins

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Prior, Matthew

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

10.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

11.

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

Halen

12.

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

Rita Rudner

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Bible

17.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Luther, Martin

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

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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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Vries, Peter De

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

31.

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

Hull, Raymond

32.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

33.

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

Kauffman, Max

34.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

35.

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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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

Novalis

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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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

William Shakespeare

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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Marriage is the death of hope.