Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Thomason, Pauline

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Rowland, Helen

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

13.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

17.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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

20.

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.

21.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Luther, Martin

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

28.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

30.

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

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

38.

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

Rita Rudner

39.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Scottish

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

47.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

50.

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