Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

- Diane Ackerman

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Vass, Susan

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

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

Elizabeth I

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

11.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

12.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

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

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

16.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

17.

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

Knowles, F. M.

18.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

19.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

21.

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

Proverb, Scottish

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

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

West, Mae

24.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

25.

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

26.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

27.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

28.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

29.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

30.

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

Wycherley, William

31.

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

Graham, James

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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

40.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Dave Meurer

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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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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

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

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

Rita Rudner

49.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen