Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

- Jessel, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Byron, Lord

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

10.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Wilson, Earl

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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

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

Samuel, Herbert

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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

50.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max