Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Elizabeth I

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

11.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

13.

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

14.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

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

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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

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

18.

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

19.

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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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

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

22.

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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Hunt, Morton

24.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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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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

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

Knowles, F. M.

31.

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

Kinison, Sam

32.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Lennon, John

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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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

44.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

West, Mae

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

47.

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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

49.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

50.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen