Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the death of hope.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

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

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Nick Faldo

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

Graham, James

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Rowland, Helen

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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 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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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Elizabeth I

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Hitopadesa

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Winters, Shelley

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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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

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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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 a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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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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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