Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Coward, Noel

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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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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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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 keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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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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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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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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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

West, Mae

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, German

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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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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Key, Ellen

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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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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Allen, Woody

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis