Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Kathleen Norris

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Irving, Washington

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Byron, Lord

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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.

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Key, Ellen

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

Vries, Peter De

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Coward, Noel

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Kinison, Sam

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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

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hull, Raymond

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Rooney, Mickey

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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

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.