Motivational Quotes

Marriage

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

- Dangerfield, Rodney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Graham, James

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

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

10.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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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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

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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

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Barrymore, John

22.

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

Coward, Noel

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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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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

30.

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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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Elizabeth I

33.

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

Carson, Johnny

34.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Bennett, Jill

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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

46.

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

47.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red