Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rieux, Madame De

Best Quotes about Marriage

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

12.

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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

15.

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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Skelton, Red

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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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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Proverb, Scottish

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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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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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Elizabeth I

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Proverb

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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

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

38.

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

39.

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

41.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Key, Ellen

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel