Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Proverb

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

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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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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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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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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Proverb, German

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

21.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

24.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Vries, Peter De

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

44.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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