Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

10.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

11.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Bible

13.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Vries, Peter De

15.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

16.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

27.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

29.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

30.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

31.

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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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

34.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

35.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

40.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Helen Rowland

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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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

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

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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.