Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

Pearl Buck

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

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

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Byron, Lord

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Duncan, Isadora

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

20.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

21.

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

Chopin, Daniel

22.

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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

26.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

27.

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

Pancoast, Mal

28.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

29.

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

30.

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

Hull, Raymond

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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

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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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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

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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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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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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

44.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

45.

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

46.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Skelton, Red

48.

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

Vries, Peter De

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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.