Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

Best Quotes about Marriage

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Elizabeth I

11.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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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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'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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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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

18.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

21.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

25.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

35.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

36.

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

Myers, Cecil

37.

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

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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

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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

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hesiod

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

Skelton, Red

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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