Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Byron, Lord

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

12.

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

13.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

16.

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

17.

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

Victoria, Queen

18.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

19.

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

Bennett, Jill

20.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

21.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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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

25.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

26.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

30.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

31.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

32.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

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

42.

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

Halen

43.

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

Skelton, Red

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

Baum, Vicki

45.

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

46.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

47.

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

Lennon, John

48.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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