Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Marriage

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Penn, William

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Landers, Ann

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

Moliere

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

10.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

11.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Byron, Lord

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

17.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

20.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

23.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

25.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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.

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

35.

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

Eucharista Ward

37.

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

Key, Ellen

38.

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

39.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

40.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

50.

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