Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sunday, Billy

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Andre Maurois

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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

21.

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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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

Peter Blake

28.

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

29.

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

Baum, Vicki

30.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

31.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

33.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

34.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

35.

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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

37.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

38.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Landers, Ann

44.

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

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

Proverb

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.