Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

17.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Sunday, Billy

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Mae West

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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

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

42.

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

Rieux, Madame De

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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 should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis