Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

- Mcginley, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

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

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

10.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

11.

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

Smalley, Gary

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Helen Rowland

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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

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Bennett, Jill

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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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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.

Landers, Ann

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

Baskins

28.

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

29.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Dave Meurer

31.

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

Duncan, Isadora

32.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

33.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Prior, Matthew

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Skelton, Red

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

41.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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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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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

45.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.