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

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Key, Ellen

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

Moliere

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Winters, Shelley

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

10.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

11.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

12.

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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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

14.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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

Graham, James

16.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

19.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

20.

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

Ruckett

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

23.

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

Cosby, Bill

24.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

25.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

27.

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

28.

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

Rita Rudner

29.

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

Carson, Johnny

30.

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

31.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

32.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

33.

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

34.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

35.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

36.

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

Rieux, Madame De

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

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

40.

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

Mead, Margaret

41.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

43.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

44.

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

Mickey Rooney

45.

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

46.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

47.

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

48.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

49.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

50.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara