Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Luther, Martin

14.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

Proverb, German

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

Graham, James

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

Carson, Johnny

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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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

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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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

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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 tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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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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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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

William Shakespeare

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

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