Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Graham, James

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Allen, Woody

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

11.

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

12.

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

13.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

14.

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

Ford, Richard

15.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

16.

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

Knowles, F. M.

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

22.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

25.

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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

27.

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

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

Hitopadesa

30.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

34.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

35.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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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

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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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

43.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Proverb, German

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

48.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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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.