Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

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

Ruckett

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

Maurois, Andre

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

12.

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

Nick Faldo

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

16.

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

West, Mae

17.

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.

18.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

19.

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

20.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Knowles, F. M.

22.

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

23.

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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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

25.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

27.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

29.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

31.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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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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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

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

39.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

40.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

43.

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

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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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

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas