Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Billings, Josh

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

10.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

11.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

15.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

17.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

18.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

19.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

20.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

21.

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

Prior, Matthew

22.

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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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

25.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

27.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Heine, Heinrich

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

34.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

35.

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

Elizabeth I

36.

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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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Rieux, Madame De

40.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

45.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

William Shakespeare

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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

49.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

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