Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

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

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Rooney, Mickey

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

11.

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

12.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Vries, Peter De

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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

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

Kauffman, Max

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Hesiod

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

Carson, Johnny

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

27.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Irving, Washington

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

32.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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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

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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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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.