Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Moliere

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Rowland, Helen

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

16.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

Knowles, F. M.

23.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Connolly, Cyril

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Billings, Josh

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Maurois, Andre

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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 an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Vries, Peter De

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.