Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

- Rudner, Rita

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

William Shakespeare

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

West, Mae

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

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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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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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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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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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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

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Byron, Lord

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

Bush, Barbara