Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Will Rogers

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Clarke, W. A.

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Proverb

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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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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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Myers, Cecil

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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

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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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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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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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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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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat