Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

- Webb, Mary

Best Quotes about Marriage

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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 high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Skelton, Red

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

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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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

Byron, Lord

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

Andre Maurois

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Murray, Joe

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

Vass, Susan

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Hitopadesa

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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