Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Key, Ellen

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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

11.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

12.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

14.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Bible

17.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Lennon, John

19.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

24.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

25.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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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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

31.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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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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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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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Farquhar, George

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

46.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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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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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

49.

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

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy