Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

William Shakespeare

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

Marx, Groucho

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Myers, Cecil

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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

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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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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 was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Congreve, William

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Ford, Richard

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

40.

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

Kinison, Sam

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

45.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

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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