Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

- Corelli, Marie

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

William Shakespeare

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Will Rogers

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

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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

11.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

12.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Peter Blake

15.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

16.

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

Carson, Johnny

18.

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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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

21.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

22.

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

23.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

24.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Proverb, Scottish

26.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

27.

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

28.

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

Wycherley, William

29.

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

30.

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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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

32.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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Corelli, Marie

40.

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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Graham, James

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

Hitopadesa

44.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

45.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Vries, Peter De

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

48.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

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