Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

10.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

11.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

13.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

19.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

20.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

21.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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

25.

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

Barrymore, John

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

28.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

32.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

33.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

34.

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

Kathleen Norris

35.

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

Allen, Woody

36.

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

Hitopadesa

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

39.

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

Hitopadesa

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Alexander, Shana

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

44.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

45.

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

46.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.