Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Updike, John

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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 our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

11.

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 low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

13.

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

Key, Ellen

14.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Rita Rudner

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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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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

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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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

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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

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

Elizabeth I

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Maurois, Andre

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Peter Blake

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Luther, Martin

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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.

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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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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