Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

- Bennett, Jill

Best Quotes about Marriage

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

11.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

12.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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

Skelton, Red

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

19.

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

Baum, Vicki

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Moliere

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

38.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

39.

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

Kauffman, Max

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

41.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eliot, George

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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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