Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Billings, Josh

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Proverb

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Key, Ellen

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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

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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Byron, Lord

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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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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Congreve, William

28.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

29.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

William Shakespeare

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Nick Faldo

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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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

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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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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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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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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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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