Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Smalley, Gary

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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.

Nash, Ogden

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Farquhar, George

11.

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

Coward, Noel

12.

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

Myers, Cecil

13.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Skelton, Red

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

Kathleen Norris

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

18.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

19.

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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

21.

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

Jong, Erica

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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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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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

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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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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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

35.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Vass, Susan

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

39.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Key, Ellen

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.