Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Byron, Lord

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jong, Erica

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

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

Samuel, Herbert

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

10.

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

Wycherley, William

11.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Congreve, William

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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

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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 think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Vries, Peter De

20.

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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Proverb, German

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

28.

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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

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

32.

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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

34.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

35.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Victoria, Queen

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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