Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Halen

Best Quotes about Marriage

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

William Shakespeare

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Elizabeth I

10.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

11.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

14.

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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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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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

18.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Hitopadesa

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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.

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

34.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

35.

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

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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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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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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

39.

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Novalis

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

Mae West

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

Chopin, Daniel

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Samuel, Herbert

50.

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

Grizzard, Lewis