Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

- Jessel, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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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

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Miller, Harlan

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

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Skelton, Red

24.

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

Bundy, Peg

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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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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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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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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

33.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

William Shakespeare

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Proverb

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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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Victoria, Queen