Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

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

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Myers, Cecil

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Jong, Erica

11.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

16.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

31.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Bennett, Jill

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

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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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Helen Rowland

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

41.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John