Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

- Jessel, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

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

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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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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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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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

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Myers, Cecil

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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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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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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

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

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Moliere

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy