Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hitopadesa

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Byron, Lord

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

10.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

12.

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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

15.

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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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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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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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Maurois, Andre

20.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

23.

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

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Congreve, William

27.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Ford, Richard

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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 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

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

West, Mae

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