Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Marx, Groucho

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Cosby, Bill

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

15.

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

Lennon, John

16.

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

Winters, Shelley

17.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

18.

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

Billings, Josh

21.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

22.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Updike, John

25.

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

Proverb, Spanish

26.

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

Proverb, German

27.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

28.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

29.

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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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.

31.

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

Bush, Barbara

32.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

33.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

36.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

37.

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

Prior, Matthew

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

39.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

40.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

44.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

45.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

46.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

47.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

48.

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

49.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

50.

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