Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Myers, Cecil

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hesiod

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

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

Rowland, Helen

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

10.

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

Byron, Lord

11.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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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

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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 wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Helen Rowland

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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 always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

25.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

27.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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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

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

32.

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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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Ford, Richard

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Landers, Ann

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

43.

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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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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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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

Prior, Matthew