Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I married beneath me. All women do.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

11.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Maurois, Andre

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Baskins

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

Peter Blake

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Luther, Martin

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Rita Rudner

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

Winters, Shelley

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

West, Mae

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Smalley, Gary

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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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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive