Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Skelton, Red

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

William Shakespeare

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Luther, Martin

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

19.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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

Ford, Richard

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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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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Hitopadesa

30.

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

31.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Scottish

33.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

34.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

35.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Allen, Woody

43.

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

44.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

45.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

46.

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 one long conversation, checkered by disputes.