Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Helen Rowland

Best Quotes about Marriage

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Hitopadesa

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Kauffman, Max

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Penn, William

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

Alexander, Shana

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

10.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

12.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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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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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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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

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

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

31.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

36.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

41.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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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

43.

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

Lennon, John

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

Myers, Cecil

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.