Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Hitopadesa

12.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

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13.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Hitopadesa

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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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]

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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Farquhar, George

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Allen, Woody

43.

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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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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Prior, Matthew

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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]

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