Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

11.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

15.

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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

17.

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

Wilder, Thornton

18.

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

Winters, Shelley

19.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

20.

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

Carson, Johnny

21.

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

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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

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

24.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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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

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Skelton, Red

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

34.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

35.

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

36.

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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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

43.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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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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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William