Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peter Blake

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

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

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

12.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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

14.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

16.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

18.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

19.

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

Landers, Ann

20.

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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

22.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

23.

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

25.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

26.

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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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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

29.

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

Lennon, John

30.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eucharista Ward

34.

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

Rieux, Madame De

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

36.

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

Irving, Washington

39.

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

40.

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

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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 almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

44.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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?