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

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

Duncan, Isadora

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Knowles, F. M.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Rudner, Rita

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

22.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Will Rogers

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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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

31.

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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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Vries, Peter De

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