Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dobson, Dr. James C.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Wilson, Earl

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

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

Pearl Buck

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bennett, Jill

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Ford, Richard

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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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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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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Proverb

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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