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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

12.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

William Shakespeare

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

Kinison, Sam

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

William Shakespeare

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, 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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Billings, Josh

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Allen, Woody

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Victoria, Queen

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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.

Ann Landers

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

Rita Rudner

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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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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

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

44.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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 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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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.