Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

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

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Halen

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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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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Bundy, Peg

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Pearl Buck

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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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