Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Knowles, F. M.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Winters, Shelley

10.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Jong, Erica

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Coward, Noel

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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

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

23.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Proverb

25.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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.

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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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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

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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

Hesiod

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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Andre Maurois

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.