Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Billings, Josh

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

10.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

11.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

15.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

18.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

19.

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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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Vries, Peter De

23.

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

Hitopadesa

24.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

25.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

Will Rogers

29.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

34.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

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

Ford, Richard

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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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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

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

42.

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

Elizabeth I

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

44.

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

Baskins

45.

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

Eucharista Ward

46.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Updike, John

48.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

49.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

50.

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

Proverb, Spanish