Motivational Quotes

Marriage

All marriages are mixed marriages.

- Chantal Saperstein

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Kinison, Sam

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Updike, John

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

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Graham, James

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Rooney, Mickey

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Mae West

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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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

23.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Maurois, Andre

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Rita Rudner

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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.

Rowland, Helen

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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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

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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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