Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Prior, Matthew

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Key, Ellen

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

10.

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

Andre Maurois

11.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

West, Mae

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Bible

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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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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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

29.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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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

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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Alexander, Shana

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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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.

46.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Cosby, Bill

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.