Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Nick Faldo

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

10.

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

Jong, Erica

11.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

13.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

14.

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

Coward, Noel

15.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

16.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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

19.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

20.

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

Alexander, Shana

21.

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

22.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Nelms, Cynthia

24.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.

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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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

28.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Chopin, Daniel

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

34.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Ruckett

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

Heine, Heinrich

39.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

40.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Ford, Richard

42.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

44.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

45.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Andre Maurois

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Moliere

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.