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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Congreve, William

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

18.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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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 good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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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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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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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Luther, Martin

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

Byron, Lord

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

Kathleen Norris

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Penn, William

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

Moliere

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Byron, Lord

44.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Dave Meurer

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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