Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Luther, Martin

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Cosby, Bill

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Sunday, Billy

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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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.

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Eucharista Ward

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

26.

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

29.

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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

William Shakespeare

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rita Rudner

39.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

40.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

41.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi