Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Elizabeth I

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Rudner, Rita

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

10.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Congreve, William

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Mae West

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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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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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Hesiod

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

46.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Baum, Vicki

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce