Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bible

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Prior, Matthew

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

15.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

21.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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

Graham, James

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

31.

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Hitopadesa

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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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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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Coward, Noel

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William