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

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Moliere

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Farquhar, George

10.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

11.

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

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

27.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

33.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Baskins

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Balzac, Honore De

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.