Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Marriage

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Rita Rudner

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Elizabeth I

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Kathleen Norris

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Skelton, Red

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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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 like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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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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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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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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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

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Chopin, Daniel

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Wilder, Thornton

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]