Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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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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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Skelton, Red

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

Winters, Shelley

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

West, Mae

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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

33.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

39.

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

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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

48.

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

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

Moliere

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La