Motivational Quotes

Marriage

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

- Hull, Raymond

Best Quotes about Marriage

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Hitopadesa

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Wycherley, William

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

10.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

12.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

16.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

19.

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

Jong, Erica

20.

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

21.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

22.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

24.

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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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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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

27.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

Bundy, Peg

29.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

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

Thomason, Pauline

31.

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

32.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

34.

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

Bennett, Jill

35.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

36.

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

37.

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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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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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

40.

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

West, Mae

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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

43.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

44.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

47.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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