Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Coward, Noel

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

12.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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

14.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

15.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

16.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

18.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Farquhar, George

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

23.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

24.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

25.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

26.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

27.

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

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

30.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

31.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

35.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Irving, Washington

37.

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

38.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

43.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

44.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

45.

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

Mickey Rooney

46.

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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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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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

49.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill