Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

10.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

11.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

12.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

13.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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'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

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

19.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

25.

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

Proverb

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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Beecher, Catharine Esther

28.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Irving, Washington

31.

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

32.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Kathleen Norris

35.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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

39.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

40.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

41.

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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

44.

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

Hull, Raymond

45.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

William Shakespeare

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