Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Halen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

15.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

16.

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

Bundy, Peg

17.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

18.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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

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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

23.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

30.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

31.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

32.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

33.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

34.

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

Eucharista Ward

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

42.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

43.

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

Byron, Lord

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

45.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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