Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Thomason, Pauline

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.

Landers, Ann

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Helen Rowland

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

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

10.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

11.

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

Mickey Rooney

12.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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

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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

18.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

19.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Miller, Harlan

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Ford, Richard

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

33.

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

Updike, John

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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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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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Eucharista Ward

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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

40.

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

41.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

42.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hitopadesa

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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

48.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Kinison, Sam

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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