Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Elizabeth I

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

11.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

12.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

13.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Pancoast, Mal

16.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

19.

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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

21.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Bennett, Jill

23.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

24.

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

Bush, Barbara

25.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

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

Updike, John

28.

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

Eliot, George

30.

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

31.

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

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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

33.

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

Myers, Cecil

34.

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

Marx, Groucho

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

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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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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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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

41.

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

Sunday, Billy

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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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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Smith, Sydney

49.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John