Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rieux, Madame De

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

10.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

11.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

12.

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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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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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

15.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Lennon, John

20.

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

Hull, Raymond

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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.

Ann Landers

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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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Congreve, William

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Duncan, Isadora

30.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

35.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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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

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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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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

40.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Eliot, George

42.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

43.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.