Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

10.

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

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Bagnold, Enid

13.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

21.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

26.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

35.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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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

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

41.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

44.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

Irving, Washington

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel