Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

- Wycherley, William

Best Quotes about Marriage

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Nick Faldo

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

27.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Coward, Noel

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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.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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.

34.

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

William Shakespeare

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma