Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Winters, Shelley

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.

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Peter Blake

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

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Wycherley, William

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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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

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

Rita Rudner

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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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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Updike, John

21.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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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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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

25.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

29.

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

West, Mae

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Baskins

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Eucharista Ward

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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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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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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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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

43.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Hesiod

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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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo