Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Chopin, Daniel

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Rita Rudner

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Farquhar, George

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

Barrymore, John

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

Luther, Martin

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Proverb

29.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Proverb, German

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

44.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.