Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

- Edith Wharton

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

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

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Vries, Peter De

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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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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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

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Allen, Woody

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

Rieux, Madame De

29.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

30.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

31.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

34.

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

Eliot, George

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

Mickey Rooney

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

42.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Bennett, Jill

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Proverb

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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