Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ruckett

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Billings, Josh

10.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

11.

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

Bennett, Jill

12.

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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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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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

16.

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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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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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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

26.

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

Proverb, Scottish

27.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

29.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

32.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Hesiod

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

Rieux, Madame De

42.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Mickey Rooney

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick