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

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

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

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

10.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

11.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

12.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Byron, Lord

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

Will Rogers

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Allen, Woody

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

22.

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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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Murray, Joe

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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

28.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

29.

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

30.

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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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

33.

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

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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Bush, Barbara

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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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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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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

41.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

45.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare