Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Clarke, W. A.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Victoria, Queen

10.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

11.

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

12.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Vries, Peter De

17.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

18.

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

Eucharista Ward

19.

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

20.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

21.

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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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

23.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

24.

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

Luther, Martin

25.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

26.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Pearl Buck

28.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

29.

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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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

31.

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

Wilder, Thornton

32.

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

Diller, Phyllis

34.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

35.

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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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

42.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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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

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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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.

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

49.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Vries, Peter De