Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

- Wycherley, William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ford, Richard

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.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

20.

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

Winters, Shelley

21.

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

23.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

24.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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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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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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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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

31.

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

Rita Rudner

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

William Shakespeare

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Allen, Woody

37.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

42.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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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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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hubbard, Elbert