Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Penn, William

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

Moliere

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

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

Hitopadesa

11.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

15.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

16.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

19.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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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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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

26.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

28.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

30.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

31.

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

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

36.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

40.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

42.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

43.

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

44.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

45.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

46.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa