Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Marriage

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Nick Faldo

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Nelms, Cynthia

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hesiod

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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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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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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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

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

Andre Maurois

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Halen

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rita Rudner

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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

Samuel, Herbert

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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Samuel Johnson

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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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

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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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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