Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sunday, Billy

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Maurois, Andre

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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 like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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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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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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

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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

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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Young, Brigham

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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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 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 is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

William Shakespeare

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.