Motivational Quotes

Marriage

He who marries for money earns it.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Marriage

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Elizabeth I

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

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Lennon, John

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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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

Landers, Ann

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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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

20.

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

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Duncan, Isadora

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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

31.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

38.

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

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.