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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Proverb, German

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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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rieux, Madame De

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Rudner, Rita

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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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Victoria, Queen