Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

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

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Nick Faldo

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Murray, Joe

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

21.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Eliot, George

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Baskins

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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

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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

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

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Novalis

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pearl Buck

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

Victoria, Queen