Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

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

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Farquhar, George

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

14.

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

Victoria, Queen

15.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

16.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

18.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

22.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

23.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

24.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

25.

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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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

27.

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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

30.

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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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

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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

33.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

42.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

44.

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

Novalis

45.

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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

47.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

48.

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

Winters, Shelley

49.

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

Skelton, Red

50.

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.