Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Graham, James

Best Quotes about Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Byron, Lord

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Hitopadesa

12.

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

Kauffman, Max

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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

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

27.

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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

30.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Helen Rowland

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

33.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

40.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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

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

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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