Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Marriage

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

10.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

13.

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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Samuel Johnson

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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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 the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

42.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.