Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Hitopadesa

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Proverb

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

Winters, Shelley

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

10.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

11.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

12.

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

13.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Penn, William

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

18.

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

Balzac, Honore De

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Peter Blake

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

28.

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

Duncan, Isadora

29.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

31.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

32.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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

West, Mae

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Baskins

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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 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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Proverb

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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