Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

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

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

10.

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Victoria, Queen

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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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

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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

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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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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Winters, Shelley

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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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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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Baskins

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

Coward, Noel

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Maurois, Andre