Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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.

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

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

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Clarke, W. A.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kauffman, Max

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Murray, Joe

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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

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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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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Wilson, Earl

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Ruckett

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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