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

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Kauffman, Max

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Proverb, German

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.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

12.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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

14.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

15.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

19.

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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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

21.

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

23.

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

Winters, Shelley

24.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Halen

27.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

33.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

34.

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

35.

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

Eucharista Ward

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Knowles, F. M.

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Congreve, William

46.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert