Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wilde, Oscar

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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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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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

18.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

William Shakespeare

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

Congreve, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

30.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

33.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

44.

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

Lennon, John

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

48.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De