Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Grizzard, Lewis

Best Quotes about Marriage

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Rita Rudner

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

Lawana Blackwell

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Connolly, Cyril

10.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

11.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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 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

16.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

18.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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

20.

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

21.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

22.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

24.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

25.

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

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

29.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

30.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

33.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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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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

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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

40.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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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

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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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