Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I married beneath me. All women do.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

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

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Wycherley, William

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Farquhar, George

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Billings, Josh