Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Marriage

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

William Shakespeare

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

10.

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

Rieux, Madame De

11.

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

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb

16.

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

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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

18.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

19.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

20.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

21.

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

Bennett, Jill

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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

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

24.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

25.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

28.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

29.

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

30.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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.

33.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

36.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Peter Blake

39.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

40.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

41.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

42.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Lennon, John

44.

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

Duncan, Isadora

45.

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

46.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar