Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Harrison, Jane

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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

10.

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

11.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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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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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

20.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

21.

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

22.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

23.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

24.

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

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Eliot, George

27.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

30.

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

31.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

32.

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

33.

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

Penn, William

34.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

35.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

36.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

37.

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

Congreve, William

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

44.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

46.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas