Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

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

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

10.

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

Alexander, Shana

11.

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

12.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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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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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Eucharista Ward

21.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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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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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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

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Jong, Erica

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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 like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

36.

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

Coward, Noel

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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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