Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Kinison, Sam

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Fuller, Thomas

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

William Shakespeare

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

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

10.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

12.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

14.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

17.

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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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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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

20.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

23.

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

Prior, Matthew

24.

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

Wilson, Earl

25.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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

27.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

28.

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

Barrymore, John

29.

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

30.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

31.

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

Irving, Washington

32.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

33.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

34.

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

35.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

36.

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

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

Smalley, Gary

40.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

41.

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

Hitopadesa

42.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Duncan, Isadora

44.

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

45.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

46.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

47.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

48.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

49.

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

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

Elizabeth I