Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Carson, Johnny

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

West, Mae

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Nick Faldo

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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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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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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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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kinison, Sam

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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 must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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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.

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

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Maurois, Andre

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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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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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

48.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora