Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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 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

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

Connolly, Cyril

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

10.

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

11.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

12.

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

Winters, Shelley

13.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

14.

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.

Landers, Ann

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

Chopin, Daniel

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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

18.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

19.

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

Baum, Vicki

20.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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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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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

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

27.

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 our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Prior, Matthew

31.

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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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.

33.

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

Rudner, Rita

34.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

40.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

41.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mignon McLaughlin

48.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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