Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Rieux, Madame De

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Halen

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

10.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

11.

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

12.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

13.

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

14.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

16.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

17.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

18.

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

Baskins

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

22.

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

23.

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

Pancoast, Mal

24.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Samuel, Herbert

27.

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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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

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

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

34.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

35.

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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

37.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

38.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

39.

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

Wycherley, William

40.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

41.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

42.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

44.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rita Rudner