Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lawana Blackwell

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Miller, Harlan

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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 woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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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

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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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

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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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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

William Shakespeare

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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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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

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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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

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

Victoria, Queen

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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

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

Penn, William