Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Peter Blake

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

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

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

12.

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

Coward, Noel

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Victoria, Queen

16.

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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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

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

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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

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

Ford, Richard

22.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

23.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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

27.

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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

31.

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

Jong, Erica

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.

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

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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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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

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Mickey Rooney

40.

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

Murray, Joe

41.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

43.

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

Vries, Peter De

44.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

45.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Winters, Shelley

49.

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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa