Motivational Quotes

Marriage

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Ford, Richard

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

Prior, Matthew

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Mignon McLaughlin

10.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

11.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Eliot, George

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

17.

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

18.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

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

Mickey Rooney

20.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

23.

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

24.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Knowles, F. M.

30.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

31.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

35.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Alexander, Shana

39.

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

Allen, Woody

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

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

42.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

45.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb, Scottish

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

48.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen