Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I married beneath me. All women do.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

William Shakespeare

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Byron, Lord

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Baskins

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

27.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Irving, Washington

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Myers, Cecil

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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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

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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