Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Victoria, Queen

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

12.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rowland, Helen

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Halen

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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Hesiod

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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

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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Rowland, Helen

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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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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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De