Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

- Dave Meurer

Best Quotes about Marriage

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

10.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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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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

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

18.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

19.

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

20.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

21.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

24.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

25.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

28.

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

30.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

31.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

33.

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

Proverb, Scottish

34.

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

35.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

38.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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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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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

44.

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

Proverb, Spanish

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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