Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Skelton, Red

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

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

Rudner, Rita

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

10.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

18.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Jong, Erica

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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

24.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

25.

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

Bible

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Andre Maurois

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Murray, Joe

30.

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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 never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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