Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ford, Richard

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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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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

21.

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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Thomason, Pauline

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Halen

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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

37.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

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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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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.

Bennett, Jill

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

Elizabeth I

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

West, Mae

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green