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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Dave Meurer

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

Lennon, John

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

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

Helen Rowland

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

Congreve, William

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

Samuel, Herbert

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Wycherley, William

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

Byron, Lord

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Smith, Sydney