Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Duncan, Isadora

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Connolly, Cyril

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

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

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Diller, Phyllis

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Hitopadesa

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

20.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

21.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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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 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 mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Alexander, Shana

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

34.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

35.

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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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kathleen Norris

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.