Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rieux, Madame De

Best Quotes about Marriage

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Hitopadesa

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

12.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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

14.

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

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

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

18.

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

Carson, Johnny

19.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

24.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

27.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

28.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

30.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

31.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

32.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

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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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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

39.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

41.

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

Lennon, John

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

Bible

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Skelton, Red

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

Rieux, Madame De

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Moliere