Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

10.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Duncan, Isadora

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Hitopadesa

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Bible

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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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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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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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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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Alexander, Shana

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette