Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Murray, Joe

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

Hesiod

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Proverb

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

William Shakespeare

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

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

Elizabeth I

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

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

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Maurois, Andre

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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 successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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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

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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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

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Rowland, Helen