Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Marriage

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Vries, Peter De

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

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

11.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Murray, Joe

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Clarke, W. A.

15.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

17.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

18.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

19.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

20.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Eliot, George

22.

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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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

24.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

25.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

27.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

28.

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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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

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

31.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

38.

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

39.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.