Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Alexander, Shana

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

10.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

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Bolitho, William

14.

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

15.

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

Winters, Shelley

16.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

17.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

18.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Irving, Washington

20.

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

Miller, Harlan

21.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

23.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

24.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

25.

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.

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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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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.

28.

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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

30.

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

Clarke, W. A.

31.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

32.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

Vries, Peter De

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

42.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

43.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

46.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

48.

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

49.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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