Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mignon McLaughlin

11.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Rita Rudner

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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: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Harrison, Jane

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

Winters, Shelley

25.

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

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Elizabeth I

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

36.

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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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

William Shakespeare

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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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.

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

Prior, Matthew

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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