Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

William Shakespeare

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Bible

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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

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Proverb

34.

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

Hesiod

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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

Congreve, William

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

45.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Lawana Blackwell

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De