Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

12.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

13.

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

Halen

14.

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

Kinison, Sam

15.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

18.

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

Vass, Susan

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

Congreve, William

25.

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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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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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

28.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

30.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

31.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

32.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

33.

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

Novalis

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

35.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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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

37.

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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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

41.

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

Lennon, John

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

Clarke, W. A.

43.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb