Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Winters, Shelley

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

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Cosby, Bill

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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.

Bunker, Archie

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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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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Scottish

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Helen Rowland

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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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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Hitopadesa

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Wilder, Thornton

37.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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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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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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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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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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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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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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

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