Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Halen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Balzac, Honore De

10.

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

11.

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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kauffman, Max

16.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

18.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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

20.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

21.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

23.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

24.

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

25.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Bush, Barbara

30.

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

31.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

32.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

33.

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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb, German

37.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

West, Mae

43.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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