Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Rowland, Helen

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Alexander, Shana

10.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Novalis

12.

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

Baum, Vicki

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

18.

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

Mae West

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

20.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

23.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

25.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

26.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

28.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

29.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

32.

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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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

34.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

35.

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

Sunday, Billy

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

39.

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

Mickey Rooney

40.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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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

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.