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

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

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

William Shakespeare

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bundy, Peg

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

10.

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

11.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

12.

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

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

Peter Blake

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Thomason, Pauline

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

21.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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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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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

27.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

28.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

29.

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

Winters, Shelley

30.

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

31.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

39.

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

Baskins

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Eucharista Ward

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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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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

44.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.