Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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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

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

22.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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

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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

26.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

27.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

28.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

34.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

35.

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

Billings, Josh

36.

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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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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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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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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

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

45.

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

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil