Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Hitopadesa

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Pancoast, Mal

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

10.

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

Eucharista Ward

11.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

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

15.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

16.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

17.

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

Farquhar, George

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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

20.

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

Irving, Washington

23.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

25.

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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

27.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

28.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rooney, Mickey

31.

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

Penn, William

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

Clarke, W. A.

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

35.

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

Hull, Raymond

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

43.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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