Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Moliere

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

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Luther, Martin

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

Skelton, Red

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Pancoast, Mal

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

10.

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.

11.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hesiod

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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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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

19.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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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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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

Nick Faldo

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

Knowles, F. M.

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Updike, John

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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 an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.