Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

- Graham, James

Best Quotes about Marriage

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Proverb

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Chopin, Daniel

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

17.

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

William Shakespeare

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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

20.

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

Rowland, Helen

21.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

22.

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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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

25.

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

Carson, Johnny

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

27.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

29.

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

Helen Rowland

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Congreve, William

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

Vries, Peter De

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Baskins

37.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

William Shakespeare

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

43.

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

Bennett, Jill

44.

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

Coward, Noel

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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

46.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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