Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Baum, Vicki

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

14.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

15.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

16.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

17.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

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

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

29.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

Bible

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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

39.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

40.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

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

William Shakespeare

43.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Ford, Richard

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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

49.

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

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa