Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Victoria, Queen

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Myers, Cecil

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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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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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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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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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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Eucharista Ward

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

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

Bible

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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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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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Eliot, George

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.