Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

- Sondheim, Stephen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

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

Mae West

13.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

17.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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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

20.

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

Key, Ellen

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

Smalley, Gary

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

24.

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

Irving, Washington

26.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

27.

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

Graham, James

28.

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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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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

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

33.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

34.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

35.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Elizabeth I

39.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

40.

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

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

43.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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 an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

48.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

49.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin