Motivational Quotes

Marriage

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

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

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

21.

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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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, Woody

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

33.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

35.

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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Moliere

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Hitopadesa

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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