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

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

William Shakespeare

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bible

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

10.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

11.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

12.

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

Novalis

13.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

14.

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

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

19.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

20.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mickey Rooney

22.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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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

25.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

26.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

27.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

28.

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

Bennett, Jill

29.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

30.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

31.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

32.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

33.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

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

Rita Rudner

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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 a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

38.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

41.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

49.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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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