Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

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

Ford, Richard

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

10.

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

11.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

12.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Eucharista Ward

14.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Will Rogers

17.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

Smith, Sydney

19.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

25.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

26.

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

27.

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

28.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

30.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Andre Maurois

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

Lennon, John

34.

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

35.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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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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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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Updike, John

44.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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.

47.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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