Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Halen

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Spencer, Herbert

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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

Elizabeth I

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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]

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Alexander, Shana

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Samuel, Herbert

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Vries, Peter De

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg