Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Miller, Harlan

10.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

11.

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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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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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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Myers, Cecil

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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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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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 institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

32.

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

Novalis

33.

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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William