Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

11.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

12.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

18.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Victoria, Queen

20.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

21.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Landers, Ann

27.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

28.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Ford, Richard

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

34.

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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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

36.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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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 is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

44.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

45.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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

48.

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

Bible

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

Clarke, W. A.

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.