Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Prior, Matthew

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

William Shakespeare

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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

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

Kinison, Sam

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Maurois, Andre

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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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.