Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Gaskell, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Congreve, William

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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

11.

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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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Moliere

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

20.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Mae West

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rowland, Helen

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

38.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Maurois, Andre

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

43.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney