Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Thomason, Pauline

Best Quotes about Marriage

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

11.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Allen, Woody

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

Hesiod

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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.

28.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Rooney, Mickey

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Proverb

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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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Vries, Peter De

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Mae West

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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 deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick