Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Wilson, Earl

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Prior, Matthew

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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 best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Myers, Cecil

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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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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Rudner, Rita

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

30.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Proverb, German

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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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.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton