Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

10.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

11.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

12.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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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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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

16.

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

17.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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

19.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

20.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

22.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

30.

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

31.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

32.

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

Luther, Martin

33.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Farquhar, George

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

48.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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