Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Marriage

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Prior, Matthew

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

William Shakespeare

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kathleen Norris

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

15.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

William Shakespeare

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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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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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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

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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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Congreve, William

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Connolly, Cyril

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Farquhar, George

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

Eliot, George

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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

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic