Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

- Graham, James

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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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

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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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Mae West

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

Baskins

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.