Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Kinison, Sam

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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

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

Helen Rowland

12.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Congreve, William

14.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

15.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Byron, Lord

17.

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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Carson, Johnny

21.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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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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

33.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

36.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Mae West

39.

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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

Young, Brigham

45.

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

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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

48.

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Jerrold, Douglas William