Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Graham, James

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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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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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Penn, William

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

18.

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

Mickey Rooney

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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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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

William Shakespeare

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

29.

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

Will Rogers

30.

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

Lennon, John

31.

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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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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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

34.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

Bundy, Peg

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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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

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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

43.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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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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.