Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Myers, Cecil

Best Quotes about Marriage

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

William Shakespeare

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

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

11.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

12.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

14.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

15.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

20.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Mickey Rooney

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

27.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Key, Ellen

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

37.

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

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Prior, Matthew

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Bennett, Jill

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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.

49.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

50.

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