Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Marriage

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

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

Mae West

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

10.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

12.

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

13.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

14.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

15.

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

Jong, Erica

16.

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

Proverb

17.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

18.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

19.

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

20.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

21.

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

Vries, Peter De

22.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Byron, Lord

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

27.

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

28.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

30.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

William Shakespeare

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

45.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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

50.

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

Chatterton, Thomas