Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Jong, Erica

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

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

10.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

11.

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

Kauffman, Max

12.

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

Duncan, Isadora

13.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

14.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Prior, Matthew

28.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

31.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

32.

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

Coward, Noel

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

35.

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

Clarke, W. A.

36.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

41.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Kathleen Norris

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

44.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Mickey Rooney

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