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

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

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

Mickey Rooney

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

10.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

11.

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

Thomason, Pauline

12.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

17.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

18.

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

Key, Ellen

19.

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

Will Rogers

20.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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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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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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

26.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

27.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

28.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

29.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

38.

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

39.

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

Balzac, Honore De

40.

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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley