Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Elizabeth I

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

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

Allen, Woody

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

11.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Ford, Richard

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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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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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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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: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

West, Mae

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

Byron, Lord

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Rita Rudner

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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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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Dupuy, Alexis

29.

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

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

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

40.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, German

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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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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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