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

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

Alexander, Shana

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

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

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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.

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

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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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William Shakespeare

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Andre Maurois

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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

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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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

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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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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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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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ford, Richard

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

Proverb, Spanish

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Knowles, F. M.

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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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

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

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

Mae West

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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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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Moliere

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.