Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Peter Blake

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

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

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

Eliot, George

10.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Prior, Matthew

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Heine, Heinrich

25.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

27.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

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

Elizabeth I

32.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.