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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

10.

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

Farquhar, George

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Hull, Raymond

14.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

15.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

16.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

17.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

18.

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

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

Elizabeth I

20.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

21.

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

William Shakespeare

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

24.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

25.

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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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

Marx, Groucho

30.

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

31.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

33.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

37.

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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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

39.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

40.

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

Updike, John

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

44.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

45.

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

Bible

46.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

47.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

49.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein