Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Myers, Cecil

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Mickey Rooney

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

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

17.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Farquhar, George

19.

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

Proverb

20.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

21.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

28.

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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

31.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

32.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

33.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

34.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

36.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

37.

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

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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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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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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.

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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

42.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

43.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

44.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

45.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

46.

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

Andre Maurois

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Updike, John

49.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen