Motivational Quotes

Marriage

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Barrymore, John

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

10.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

11.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

William Shakespeare

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

21.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Eliot, George

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

34.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

35.

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

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Farquhar, George

41.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Myers, Cecil

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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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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen