Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Moliere

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Vass, Susan

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

Proverb

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

Hull, Raymond

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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 operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

14.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

29.

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

William Shakespeare

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Halen

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Mae West

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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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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

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

Baskins

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Chopin, Daniel