Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

- Robin Green

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Elizabeth I

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Graham, James

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Congreve, William

10.

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

Miller, Harlan

11.

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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

18.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

19.

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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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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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

22.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Connolly, Cyril

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

30.

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

31.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

37.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

38.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

39.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

40.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

42.

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

43.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.