Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Marriage

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Eliot, George

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

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

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

Murray, Joe

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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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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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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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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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Myers, Cecil

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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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?

Streisand, Barbara

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

Clarke, W. A.

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Carson, Johnny

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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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

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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