Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Myers, Cecil

Best Quotes about Marriage

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

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

Victoria, Queen

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

10.

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

Nick Faldo

11.

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

Clarke, W. A.

12.

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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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

15.

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

Bundy, Peg

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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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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

18.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

21.

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

22.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

23.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

24.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

25.

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

Baum, Vicki

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

27.

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

28.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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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

30.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

31.

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

Kathleen Norris

32.

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

33.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

38.

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

Coward, Noel

39.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

41.

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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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

43.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

44.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.