Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Clarke, W. A.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Kathleen Norris

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moliere

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mead, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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

Irving, Washington

25.

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

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

27.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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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

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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 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

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Rooney, Mickey

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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

42.

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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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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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