Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

- Diane Ackerman

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Pearl Buck

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Chopin, Daniel

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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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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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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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

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

Rita Rudner

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Coward, Noel

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Eliot, George

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Proverb

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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

Bible

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Graham, James

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

Hesiod

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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