Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Peter Blake

Best Quotes about Marriage

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, 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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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

12.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

14.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

15.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

18.

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

19.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

20.

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

Maurois, Andre

21.

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

22.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Chopin, Daniel

25.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

26.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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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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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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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

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Smalley, Gary

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

39.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

40.

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

Irving, Washington

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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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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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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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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

46.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De