Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Key, Ellen

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

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

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

10.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

11.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

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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

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

15.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

16.

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

17.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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

20.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

21.

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

Coward, Noel

22.

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

Maurois, Andre

23.

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

24.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.

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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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

27.

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

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

30.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

31.

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

Rita Rudner

32.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Victoria, Queen

34.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Harrison, Jane

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Ford, Richard

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

45.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Hitopadesa

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

49.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard