Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Bible

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

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

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

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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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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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

18.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

19.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

20.

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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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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

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

Rieux, Madame De

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

32.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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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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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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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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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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.