Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Rita Rudner

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Rowland, Helen

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bennett, Jill

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.