Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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

Sondheim, Stephen

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Ziglar, Zig

10.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

11.

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

Irving, Washington

12.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

13.

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

Nick Faldo

14.

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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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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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

19.

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

Mae West

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

Winters, Shelley

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

26.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

27.

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

28.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Baum, Vicki

30.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Kathleen Norris

32.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

33.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Helen Rowland

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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.