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

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Halen

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

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 difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Vries, Peter De

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Vries, Peter De

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

William Shakespeare

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Congreve, William

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

29.

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

Ruckett

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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 marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

William Shakespeare

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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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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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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 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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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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