Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

Hitopadesa

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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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

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Hull, Raymond

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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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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

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

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

Lennon, John

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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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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

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

37.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

Nash, Ogden

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

46.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Elizabeth I

48.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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.