Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

- Grizzard, Lewis

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

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alexander, Shana

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.

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

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

12.

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

Wilder, Thornton

14.

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

Eliot, George

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

24.

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

25.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

26.

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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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

28.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

29.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

30.

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

Miller, Harlan

31.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Newman, Nanette

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carson, Johnny

37.

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

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

40.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

41.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

44.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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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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]

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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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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

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