Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

- Grizzard, Lewis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Vries, Peter De

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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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Kauffman, Max

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Moliere

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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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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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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

20.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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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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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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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

Proverb, German

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Sunday, Billy

40.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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.

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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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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Ford, Richard

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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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