Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Alexander, Shana

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

10.

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

11.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

West, Mae

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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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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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Peter Blake

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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 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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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

20.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Moliere

23.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

24.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

25.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

26.

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

Elizabeth I

27.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

28.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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

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

Landers, Ann

31.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

32.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

33.

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

34.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

35.

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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

43.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Hitopadesa

45.

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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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline