Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Vries, Peter De

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

10.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

13.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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

21.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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

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

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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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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

28.

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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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

32.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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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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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

35.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

38.

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

39.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

40.

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

41.

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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rowland, Helen

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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.

47.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

Ann Landers

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

Lawana Blackwell