Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Wycherley, William

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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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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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Mae West

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Farquhar, George

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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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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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 man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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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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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 marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

Cosby, Bill

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara 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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

William Shakespeare