Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

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

Peter Blake

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

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

10.

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

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

Bible

13.

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.

14.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

17.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

18.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

19.

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

Baskins

20.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

21.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

23.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

24.

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

25.

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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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

27.

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

28.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

29.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

30.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Balzac, Honore De

32.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

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

Pearl Buck

35.

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

36.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

38.

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

39.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

41.

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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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

44.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

48.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

50.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.