Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

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

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

William Shakespeare

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Rowland, Helen

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

13.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Samuel, Herbert

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

West, Mae

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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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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

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

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

Knowles, F. M.

31.

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Farquhar, George

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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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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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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Bible

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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 socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Ruckett

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Jong, Erica

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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