Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Graham, James

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

11.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

14.

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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

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

Landers, Ann

18.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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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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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Prior, Matthew

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

25.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

26.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

27.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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

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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

30.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Murray, Joe

35.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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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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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

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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

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

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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