Motivational Quotes

Marriage

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Wilson, Earl

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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Mencken, H. L.

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Murray, Joe

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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 adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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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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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Myers, Cecil

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.