Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Helen Rowland

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

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

Graham, James

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

10.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

11.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

12.

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

Myers, Cecil

13.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

14.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

18.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

19.

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

Bible

23.

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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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

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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

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

30.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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

34.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Mignon McLaughlin

38.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

39.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

40.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

43.

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

Wilder, Thornton

44.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Updike, John

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