Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Winters, Shelley

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

10.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

11.

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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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

15.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Wilson, Earl

22.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

23.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

25.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Congreve, William

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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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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

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Dave Meurer

34.

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

Murray, Joe

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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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

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

40.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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 is] a world-without-end bargain.