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

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Moliere

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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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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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Graham, James

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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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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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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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

48.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry