Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Victoria, Queen

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

11.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

12.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

18.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Kathleen Norris

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Rowland, Helen

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

33.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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.

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

Landers, Ann

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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