Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Coward, Noel

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Murray, Joe

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Nick Faldo

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Baskins

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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.

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Hitopadesa

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

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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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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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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