Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

- Jessel, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Winters, Shelley

10.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

11.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

12.

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

13.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

14.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

15.

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

Kathleen Norris

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

17.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

20.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

21.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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

23.

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

24.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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

29.

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

30.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

31.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

33.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

34.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

35.

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

Pearl Buck

36.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

38.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

39.

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.

40.

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

Bennett, Jill

41.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

42.

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

Rita Rudner

43.

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

44.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

45.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

46.

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 must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George