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

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Connolly, Cyril

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bundy, Peg

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Rowland, Helen

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Skelton, Red

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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

16.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Murray, Joe

21.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Rooney, Mickey

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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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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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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

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

30.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Samuel, Herbert

33.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

34.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

39.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

40.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

41.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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

43.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

44.

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

Lennon, John

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