Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Lawana Blackwell

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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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

11.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

12.

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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Diller, Phyllis

18.

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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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Proverb

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Clarke, W. A.

26.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Eucharista Ward

28.

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

Vries, Peter De

29.

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

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

Ford, Richard

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

36.

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

Proverb, German

38.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

40.

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

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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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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.