Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Marriage

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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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

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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

Myers, Cecil

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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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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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 a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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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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

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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

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

Bible

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.