Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

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.

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

West, Mae

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

11.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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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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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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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

24.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

25.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Bible

28.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

33.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

34.

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

Updike, John

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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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, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

40.

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

Will Rogers

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

45.

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

Myers, Cecil

46.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick