Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Marriage

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

William Shakespeare

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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

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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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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Halen

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

Elizabeth I

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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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

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Harrison, Jane

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

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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

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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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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

41.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

42.

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 a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kauffman, Max

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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.