Motivational Quotes

Marriage

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bennett, Jill

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Mickey Rooney

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

10.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

11.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

12.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

13.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

16.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

17.

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

Elizabeth I

18.

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

Andre Maurois

19.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

25.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

27.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

28.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

30.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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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

33.

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

Irving, Washington

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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 I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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 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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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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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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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Farquhar, George

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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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose