Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Pearl Buck

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Skelton, Red

10.

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

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Chopin, Daniel

18.

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

19.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

20.

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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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

22.

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 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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

25.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

26.

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

27.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

28.

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

Lennon, John

29.

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

30.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

31.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

32.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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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

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

41.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.