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

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

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Bennett, Jill

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

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

Jong, Erica

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Key, Ellen

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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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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lennon, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Barrymore, John

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Rowland, Helen

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Clarke, W. A.

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Maurois, Andre

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

37.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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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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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

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish