Motivational Quotes

Marriage

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Pancoast, Mal

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

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

Prior, Matthew

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

10.

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

Connolly, Cyril

11.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

12.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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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 blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

16.

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

Andre Maurois

17.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

18.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

19.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Farquhar, George

21.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Rooney, Mickey

27.

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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

31.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

32.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

40.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

41.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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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.

44.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

45.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

47.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

48.

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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Franklin, Benjamin