Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

- Chopin, Daniel

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

10.

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

Heine, Heinrich

11.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Updike, John

14.

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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

17.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

21.

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

Baskins

22.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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.

Ann Landers

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

Diller, Phyllis

29.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

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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

33.

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

Winters, Shelley

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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 mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Hesiod

40.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

41.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

42.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

45.

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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Rowland, Helen

48.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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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

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.