Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

Proverb, German

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Marx, Groucho

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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

Key, Ellen

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Scottish

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Mickey Rooney

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

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

Halen

23.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

27.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

28.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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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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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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

34.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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 bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

42.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Moliere