Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Eucharista Ward

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Proverb

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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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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

21.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Rieux, Madame De

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

27.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

28.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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

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

Moliere

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

Bible

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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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

Landers, Ann

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Elizabeth I

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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid