Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Marriage

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

William Shakespeare

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

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

Elizabeth I

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

Carson, Johnny

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Andre Maurois

12.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Skelton, Red

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

Vries, Peter De

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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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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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Graham, James

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

Moliere

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Farquhar, George

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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

31.

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

32.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Eucharista Ward

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

44.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

45.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Eliot, George

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De