Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sunday, Billy

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Rowland, Helen

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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.

Victoria, Queen

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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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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.

Ann Landers

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Elizabeth I

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carson, Johnny

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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 our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Congreve, William

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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

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

Baskins

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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

Balzac, Honore De