Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Coward, Noel

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Hitopadesa

10.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

11.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

12.

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

Mae West

13.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

14.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

15.

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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

19.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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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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

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

Ford, Richard

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

30.

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

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

Moliere

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

36.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

38.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

40.

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 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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Heine, Heinrich

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

45.

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 I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis