Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

- Harrison, Jane

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Dupuy, Alexis

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

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

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

10.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

11.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Elizabeth I

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Myers, Cecil

17.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

19.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

23.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

25.

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

Ford, Richard

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Mae West

35.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Murray, Joe

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

Duncan, Isadora

41.

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

42.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

44.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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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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

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.