Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Penn, William

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

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

William Shakespeare

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vries, Peter De

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Clarke, W. A.

25.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

Bennett, Jill

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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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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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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 an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Elizabeth I

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

42.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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

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

Ford, Richard

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

Halen

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

50.

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