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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Carson, Johnny

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Marx, Groucho

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Lennon, John

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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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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Ann Landers

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Prior, Matthew

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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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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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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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Kauffman, Max

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Smalley, Gary

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