Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Byron, Lord

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Hesiod

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

10.

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

Rita Rudner

11.

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

Wilson, Earl

12.

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

Winters, Shelley

13.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

14.

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

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

16.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

18.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

19.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

20.

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

Marx, Groucho

21.

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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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

24.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

25.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

26.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

27.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

28.

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

Duncan, Isadora

29.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

30.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

35.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Smith, Sydney

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

40.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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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

45.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red