Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Myers, Cecil

Best Quotes about Marriage

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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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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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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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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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

22.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Murray, Joe

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bible

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

Helen Rowland

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi