Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Dave Meurer

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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 tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Rowland, Helen

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

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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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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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