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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

13.

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

14.

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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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Rieux, Madame De

17.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

18.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

19.

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

Winters, Shelley

20.

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

Skelton, Red

21.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

30.

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

31.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

32.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

33.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

35.

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

Halen

36.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

37.

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

38.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

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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.

Landers, Ann

43.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

44.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

46.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

47.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

48.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

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

Heine, Heinrich