Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Marriage

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Wilder, Thornton

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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

Nick Faldo

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

Elizabeth I

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

23.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Maurois, Andre

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Vass, Susan

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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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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

37.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Knowles, F. M.

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris