Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Elizabeth I

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Young, Brigham

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

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

Victoria, Queen

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

13.

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

14.

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

15.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

16.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

17.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

William Shakespeare

19.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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

Heine, Heinrich

22.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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

24.

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

25.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

26.

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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Proverb

29.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Farquhar, George

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

33.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

34.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

46.

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

Winters, Shelley

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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

48.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

49.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

50.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.