Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

- Kauffman, Max

Best Quotes about Marriage

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Byron, Lord

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

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

13.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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.

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

Jong, Erica

19.

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

Proverb, Scottish

20.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

21.

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

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

25.

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

26.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

27.

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

Carson, Johnny

28.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

29.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

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

31.

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

32.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

33.

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

34.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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

Victoria, Queen

39.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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

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

44.

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.

Landers, Ann

45.

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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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

47.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

48.

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

Proverb

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.