Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Victoria, Queen

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

10.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame 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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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 used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

15.

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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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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

Kauffman, Max

34.

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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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

42.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

43.

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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

45.

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

Mead, Margaret

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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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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