Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Jong, Erica

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Sunday, Billy

10.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

11.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

13.

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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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Myers, Cecil

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Lawana Blackwell

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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

23.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

24.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bible

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

31.

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

Prior, Matthew

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Eliot, George

37.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

38.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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

40.

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

Hull, Raymond

41.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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

43.

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

Rudner, Rita

44.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Coward, Noel