Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Smalley, Gary

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

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.

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

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

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Moliere

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

Key, Ellen

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Elizabeth I

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Lennon, John

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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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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Rudner, Rita

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

William Shakespeare

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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