Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Marriage

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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.

16.

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

Farquhar, George

17.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

18.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

19.

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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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

21.

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

Vries, Peter De

22.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Halen

28.

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

29.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

30.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

31.

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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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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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

34.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Congreve, William

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

41.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Proverb

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?