Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

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

Bennett, Jill

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Luther, Martin

12.

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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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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Vass, Susan

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Will Rogers

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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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

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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.

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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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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Rowland, Helen

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

43.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Vries, Peter De