Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Heine, Heinrich

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Rowland, Helen

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

14.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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 socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Kathleen Norris

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Rieux, Madame De

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

33.

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

34.

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

Will Rogers

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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 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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Hull, Raymond

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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

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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