Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the death of hope.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

Winters, Shelley

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Baskins

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

10.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

11.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

12.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

19.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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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

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

Eliot, George

22.

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

Rita Rudner

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

25.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

26.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

27.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

28.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

29.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

30.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

31.

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

Irving, Washington

32.

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

33.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Wilder, Thornton

40.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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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