Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

- Thomason, Pauline

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Helen Rowland

10.

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

Balzac, Honore De

11.

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

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Wilson, Earl

14.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

15.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

16.

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

Wycherley, William

17.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

18.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

19.

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.

Landers, Ann

20.

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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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Proverb, Scottish

25.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

27.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

28.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

30.

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

Landers, Ann

31.

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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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

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

35.

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

36.

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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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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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Bible

40.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

41.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

42.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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

45.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

46.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Byron, Lord

48.

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

49.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody